Most people know the frustration of needing prior authorization from a health plan, often before they're even eligible for Medicare. Now, Humana, the second largest provider of Medicare Advantage ...

Humana (NYSE:HUM) on Tuesday announced plans to reduce approximately one-third of prior authorizations for outpatient services starting next year as part of a raft of measures designed to accelerate ...

Health insurer Humana has said it’s engaging in efforts to streamline the prior authorization process, in part by approving care requests as quickly as possible and reducing the administrative burdens ...

Humana Inc. NYSE: HUM) on Tuesday announced accelerated efforts to approve care requests as quickly as possible and reduce the administrative burden for physicians associated with prior authorization.

The largest Medicare Advantage insurers have prioritized profits over patient care by increasing the use of prior authorization in recent years to frequently deny post-acute care services to older ...

The country’s three largest Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers obstruct seniors’ ability to receive post-acute care, a scathing report from the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations shows ...

Prior authorization is a common utilization-management tool among Medicare Advantage plans. However, service-, area-, and carrier-level patterns suggest variation in how plans use prior authorization.

Medicare Advantage insurers fully or partially denied 7.4% of prior authorization requests in 2022, an increase compared to the previous three years, according to an analysis by health policy research ...

As the number of Medicare Advantage enrollees has grown, so has the volume of prior authorization requests submitted to MA insurers. KFF released a report Aug. 5 that analyzes prior authorization ...