United States figure skater Ilia Malinin finished in eighth place in the Men’s Singles competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Malinin, the gold medal favorite known as ...

Health insurance companies increasingly require medical providers to obtain approval before delivering the costliest forms of treatment to patients. This has helped curb wasteful expenditure but also ...

Abridge and Availity are partnering to develop a real-time prior authorization experience integrating utilization management directly into the clinician/patient conversation to streamline interactions ...

State insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval requirements for “many routine and essential” health care services, Gov. Maura Healey announced ...

Massachusetts insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval requirements for "many routine and essential" health care services, Gov. Maura Healey ...

Abridge has teamed its AI platform for clinical conversations with Availity’s digital platform that connects payers and providers to enable payer determination during a patient visit. The ...

Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an agreement with Medicare Advantage plans to lessen the use of prior authorization, but the agency also said it would ...

Health systems have to take responsibility for the broken prior authorization process and stop deferring action to payers, according to Jeff Balser, CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “A lot ...

-- Aetna provided an update on its efforts to streamline the healthcare experience on Thursday, one year to the day after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth’s top insurance executive sparked a wave of ...

Aetna has announced it is integrating pharmacy prescriptions and medical procedures into a single clinical review to streamline the prior authorization process. The prior authorization bundles are for ...

Earlier today, Cloudflare experienced a widespread outage that caused websites and online platforms worldwide to go down, returning a "500 Internal Server Error" message. The internet infrastructure ...