May 29 () - UnitedHealth's insurance unit on Friday said it would eliminate prior approval requirements for ‌about two-thirds of its healthcare services for members under ‌age 18, as insurers aim to ...

Major health insurance providers have agreed to reduce the need for prior authorization — the requirement that patients must get approval from insurers before receiving certain treatments or risk ...

A lot has been said about the outpouring of social media posts in the wake of the killing of insurance company CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, with many of the posts describing horror stories ...

Patients in Iowa will soon no longer need to wonder if their health insurance companies will approve certain care their ...

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listens to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak during a news conference to discuss health insurance ...

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An oft-repeated phrase dating back to the fourth century B.C. is that physicians should "first do no harm" when treating patients. In the present day, insurance companies - which report to their ...

InvestigateTV also contacted a healthcare information educator in Louisiana, Jacqueline Jones, who replicated a portion of the team’s research. Jones looked at sub-set of tests and procedures and the ...

Last summer, the insurance industry broadly agreed to reform a major healthcare pain point: prior authorization. Now, two of the industry's leading organizations are offering a look at progress toward ...

A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance company for access to medications to manage his excruciating pain. An oncologist is forced to delay needed treatments while arguing for health insurance ...