In a landmark move, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a sweeping initiative to end the burdensome practice of insurance pre-authorization that has long frustrated patients and ...

Massachusetts insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval requirements ...

The Department of Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has announced a “historic agreement” with insurance companies that they will now give “immediate pre-authorization” on ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with major health insurers on Monday, extracting pledges that they will take additional measures to simplify their requirements for prior ...

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that the country’s largest health insurers have promised to take steps to streamline the often-criticized prior ...

Recently, we put together a template to help medical professionals explain a confusing process. Readers gave us very pointed feedback, so we updated it. By Ron Lieber Two months ago, I shared my tale ...

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year ...