When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest. As a smoker for 40 years, Chestnut was at high risk for lung cancer. A specialist ...

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 ...

"Medically necessary" is often a four-letter word for patients.

There is a good reason for health insurers to occasionally require prior authorization for medical treatment. If a doctor ...

Massachusetts regulators would eliminate many prior authorization rules, speed urgent approvals and form a working group to ...

The New Mexico Office of Superintendent of Insurance urges all health insurance consumers to actively monitor the status of any prior authorization requests submitted on their behalf. Prior ...

Linsi Franklin of Wake County describes her struggles getting her son's medicine approved at a news conference on insurance company prior authorization. (Photo: Lynn Bonner) As a young boy was dealing ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - UPDATE (2/26/2025): Sanford Health responded to Your News Leader with the following statement: ...

State lawmakers want to crack down on an insurance practice that requires people to wait for approval for medical treatments. The practice is known as "prior authorization." Patients often have to ...

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 ...