Here’s what to know about prior authorization, and what insurers have vowed to do. What is prior authorization? Prior ...

The nation’s major health insurers are promising to scale back and improve a widely despised practice that leads to care ...

Health insurers pledged to streamline and improve the prior authorization processes for plans covering nearly eight out of 10 ...

Some of the nation's health insurers say they're taking steps to speed the process by which doctors approve medical care.

The biggest health insurance companies in the U.S. have pledged to reform much-maligned prior authorization policies, which require doctors and hospitals to get their go-ahead before providing ...

Several dozen insurers — including insurance giants UnitedHealthcare, Elevance, Aetna, Cigna and Kaiser Permanente — announced Monday that they will make “prior authorization,” a practice ...