The bill requires insurance companies and health care providers to meet new deadlines for authorizing requests for care.

Health insurers must provide speedier responses to prior authorization requests for certain medical treatments and services, ...

As congressional Republicans passed a bill that will add new red tape to federal safety net programs, a statewide audit has found that Alaska's Department of Health is routinely failing to abide by ...

Congress’s one-size-fits-all bill doesn’t take into account the realities of life in Alaska.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed four bills into law on Tuesday, including two related to child care, one addressing big-game hunting, and one that updates the state’s insurance laws. Senate Bill 96 ...

Health insurance companies use AI to decide which health care treatment to cover. State laws and federal agencies are now moving toward regulating these algorithms.

They do not apply to private insurers who do not provide federal health program coverage. Some states, including Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Maine and Texas, have proposed laws to rein in insurance AI ...

A new Arizona law goes into effect next month that requires humans to be involved in the decision-making process regarding healthcare insurance denial.

Understanding regional variation in the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on health insurance coverage among vulnerable populations such as American Indian and Alaska Native adults has ...

Arizona's new law mandates licensed physicians, not computers, to review health insurance claims, aiming to prioritize patient care over profits by 2026.

For decades, homeowners and other insurance policies have included broad pollution exclusions, often referred to as a “total pollution exclusion.” In a recent decision in Wheeler v. Garrison ...

Alaska's Medical Board unanimously concludes that gender transition procedures are “lacking legitimacy as standard medical practice.” ...