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 ...
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 ...
Large health insurance companies vowed to cut down the use of and improve a common tool to vet requests before letting doctors bill for medical services or prescriptions. UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross ...
Recently, we put together a template to help medical professionals explain a confusing process. Readers gave us very pointed feedback, so we updated it. By Ron Lieber Two months ago, I shared my tale ...
When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to ease her neurological pain, she prepared for battle. It took years, a chain of ...
Christopher Marks noticed an immediate improvement when his doctor prescribed him the Type 2 diabetes medication Mounjaro last year. The 40-year-old truck driver from Kansas City, Missouri, said his ...
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year ...
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 ...
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with American Medical Association President Bruce Scott about how physicians and patients are burdened by insurance companies' systems of prior authorization. A lot has been ...
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