Dallas Representative files bill to end prior authorization requirements for HIV prevention drug
Dallas, filed a bill this legislative session to prohibit insurance companies from requiring prior authorization before ...
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Montana looks to regulate prior authorization as patients, providers decry obstacles to care
This month, lawmaker introduced or were drafting separate bills restricting health insurers’ ability to require prior ...
Health plans, providers need to work together on prior authorization
The challenge of ensuring that all patients have access to affordable, high-quality care will not be solved by setting up ...
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Dr Debra Patt on Prior Authorization: Something Has to Give
Debra Patt, MD, PhD, MBA, MPH, warns that prior authorization barriers are delaying critical cancer treatments and urges a ...
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MA plans’ use of prior authorizations climbs again, despite heightened pressure to limit tactic
Medicare Advantage plans required prior authorizations about 125 times more often than regular Medicare in 2023, demonstrating the barriers MA patients face in accessing care. An analysis ...
The Boston Globe18d
Prior authorization is a scam. I know because I helped create it.
Prior authorization for medical care was started in the mid-1980s as a marketing scheme by health insurance companies. I know. I was in the room where it happened when I was an officer of the ...
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Indiana bills on prior authorization and noncompetes for doctors pass out of committee
Lawmakers in the Senate's Health and Provider Services Committee heard about a proposed bill Wednesday, Jan. 22 – Senate Bill 480 – that would put restrictions on when insurance companies could ...
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Businesses That Changed DEI Policies Prior to Trump's Executive Order
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DC's new 'Superman Unlimited' comic lands prior to James Gunn's 'Superman' movie
2025 is shaping up to be a banner year for the Man of Steel as director James Gunn's tentpole "Superman" feature film is streaking towards lucky cinemas this summer faster than a speeding bullet ...
Managed Healthcare Executive26d
UnitedHealth Vows to Reduce Prior Authorization Burden
Witty also promised that UnitedHealthcare would work to speed up turnaround times for approval of procedures and services for Medicare Advantage patients, and to reduce the overall number of prior ...
Des Moines Register26d
Insurers should have to give prior-authorization answers in 20 minutes in Iowa | Opinion
Health insurers now routinely refuse to pay for more expensive drugs or procedures until they have issued a “prior authorization.” Prior authorization is designed to prevent a physician from ...
New York Post27d
Pervert with 30 prior arrests and banned from subway nabbed again underground after sexually assaulting two women: NYPD
A perverted parolee with 30 prior arrests and banned from the subway was arrested again underground after sexually assaulting two women Friday, according to police. Cecil McKenzie, 53, of Harlem ...