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

Optum Rx, the pharmacy benefit manager under UnitedHealth Group, is set to eliminate prior authorization requirements for approximately 80 prescription drugs in an effort to simplify access to ...

Obtaining prior authorization for prescription medications is a time-consuming process for prescribers, patients and pharmacists that currently requires phone calls, faxes and hard-copy request forms.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health started using AI to tackle one of healthcare’s most frustrating bottlenecks, medication prior authorizations, two years ago. Now, the health system has concluded that ...

Optum Rx has announced it will drop prior authorization for an estimated 80 drugs starting May 1. The program targets reauthorizations of drugs. For instance, once a genetic condition such as cystic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After a new prior authorization policy, fills of a 30-day prescription did not occur until day 49.2. Overall, ...

Surescripts has released a new survey revealing widespread frustration among prescribers and pharmacists over prior authorization requirements, which they say delay treatment and can harm patients.

CVS Health (CVS) announces major changes to its prior authorization procedures to ensure continuity of care for patients.

New Year’s Day, the day of new beginnings, is a day health care providers like me dread. It starts the annual deluge of requests to renew “prior authorizations” — a bureaucratic tactic that insurers ...

Surescripts®, the nation's leading health intelligence network, today announced a major expansion of its Touchless Prior Authorization technology, now reaching more than 76,000 prescribers across the ...

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.