Other companies with high/extremely high prior authorization burdens include Humana (64%), Anthem/Elevance (59%), Aetna (57%), Cigna (55%), and Blue Cross Blue Shield (54%).

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Prior authorization programs delay patient care, increase emotional and financial costs on patients, create administrative burdens, increase hospitalizations and cause patient harm. × This page ...

AHN is the first health system to implement the fully automated, touchless prior authorization process, according to an April 28 news release. By entering a procedure order into the EHR ...

“This bill actually starts to move the needle when it comes to prior authorization requests,” Klimesh says. “All too often myself and all my colleagues in this chamber hear from our local ...

Click here for more stories. Legislation focused on prior authorization reforms is headed to the governor after Senate lawmakers approved changes to the bill Wednesday. Lawmakers said the bill is ...

The Kentucky Medical Association advocates for prior authorization reform to improve patient care and reduce physician burden. We live in a complicated world and try to find ways to simplify it.

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The Ohio Association of Health Plans disagrees with prior authorization criticisms but agrees in principle about the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. Joanna Escobar was in and out of ...

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The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior authorization has gone from a rarely employed tool to discourage use of extremely pricey interventions to a form ...