Can't get a prescription renewed? Here's how to cope with prior authorizations

These health care hurdles can stand in the way of getting treatment your doctor says you need. Here's what to know about how to deal with them.
Forbes

How Health Insurance ‘Prior Authorization’ Works. And How To Fix It

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jesse Pines is an expert in healthcare innovation and wellness. Health insurer prior authorization has increased considerably in ...

Prior authorization could stand between you and your doctor’s care and here's what it really means, how delays happen and what do if you’re denied

"Medically necessary" is often a four-letter word for patients.
Fast Company

How AI can finally fix prior authorization

If you’ve ever been a patient waiting—days, sometimes more than a week—for treatment approval, or a clinician stuck chasing it, you know what prior authorization feels like. Patients sit in limbo, ...
valuepenguin

Prior Authorization Can Slow Down Treatment — But You Can Fight Back

Few readers would be surprised to read that Americans are dissatisfied with their health care coverage — an outrage that the December 2024 assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson arguably ...
NPR

How prior insurance authorization affects physicians and the care they give patients

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 ...
Hosted on MSN

Medicare To Require ‘Prior Authorization' for Procedures: What It Means

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the launch of a program that will require individuals on Medicare to obtain prior approval from the federal health insurance ...
Investopedia

Mastering Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization: Tips to Accelerate Your Approval

Medicare Advantage prior authorization (PA) is the process you go through to get certain services and drugs approved before you receive them. The process can be frustrating, as it can take up to 14 ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

The Extent and Growth of Prior Authorization in Medicare Advantage

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.
Forbes

AI To Guide Use Of Prior Authorization In Medicare Through Demo Project

(L-R) White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet ...
Medscape

'Cancer Doesn't Wait': How Prior Authorization Harms Care

Fantine Giap, MD, sat across from a 21-year-old with a rare sarcoma at the base of her skull. Despite the large tumor, nestled in a sensitive area, the Boston-based radiation oncologist could envision ...
KQED

‘Delay’ and ‘Deny’: Even Health Insurance Companies Agree Prior Authorization Process Is Broken

California is one of 31 states that passed laws in 2025 limiting insurance companies’ use of prior authorization to approve ...