Wellcare, part of Centene Corporation, is an insurance company based in St. Louis, Missouri that offers a variety of Medicare ...

Prior authorizations are the way MA managed care plans pre-approve some procedures before they’ll pay for them.

Debra Patt, MD, PhD, MBA, MPH, warns that prior authorization barriers are delaying critical cancer treatments and urges a ...

Health insurers now routinely refuse to pay for more expensive drugs or procedures until they have issued a “prior authorization.” Prior authorization is designed to prevent a physician from ...

UnitedHealthcare will ease prior authorization requirements for its Medicare Advantage plans, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said Thursday. In his first public remarks since the murder of ...

“The CAFC found it plain… that Section 102(e)(1) was simply referencing a specific type of printed publication that becomes prior art as of the date it was filed.” Today, the U.S. Court of ...