Prior Authorization In 2026: How Agency Leaders Should Set Expectations

At the same time, major insurers have pledged to reduce the scope of services subject to prior authorization, improve transparency and ensure 90-day continuity of authorizations when consumers switch ...
Opinion

Insurers shouldn’t make healthcare decisions: There’s a better way

Prior authorization today is a far cry from its limited origins, when private insurers used it to scrutinize the necessity of hospital admissions. But what began in the 1960s as a relatively modest ...
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 ...

UnitedHealthcare Reduces Most Prior Approvals For Pediatric Patients

UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest health insurer, is “removing two-thirds of authorization requirements” for health plan ...

Major US health provider drops prior authorization for 30% of services — and 93% of doctors say it's long overdue

UnitedHealthcare is taking a big step to make healthcare access easier.
New York Magazine

‘Delay’ and ‘Deny’: The Outrage Over Prior Authorization

Editor’s Note: This story was published last year, before the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, which is drawing renewed attention to how the insurance industry denies care to patients.