The idea behind it seems reasonable: Insurers want to ensure treatments are medically necessary before they pay for them. But ...

Prior authorization creates a bottleneck. A physician prescribes a patient a medication, the patient goes to the pharmacy to pick it up, only to be denied. The pharmacist calls the physician's office, ...

Prior authorization requirements for PCSK9 inhibitor prescriptions are more cumbersome than those in place for other cardiometabolic drugs, a new study demonstrates. The complex processes are seen for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PCSK9 inhibitors required more prior authorization requirements compared with other drugs for cardiometabolic ...

UnitedHealthcare plans to cut back on its use of prior authorization, removing procedures and medical devices from its list of services requiring signoff and reducing the number of authorizations from ...

Develop Health, an AI-powered eligibility and prior authorization automation platform, today announced its integration with athenaOne, bringing its end-to-end access automation directly into ...

UnitedHealthcare, an insurer of 45 million patients worldwide, has announced changes to its prior authorization requirements for gastroenterology care, set to take effect June 1. New requirements will ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Plenful, the leading AI workflow automation platform modernizing healthcare, today announced its Intake Authorization Management Suite. Built to end ...

The world of prior authorization, and the hoops we need to jump through, has gotten just more and more ridiculous, bordering on the absurd, and I'm worried that things are about to get much worse.