Gov. Maura Healey unveils insurance reforms to speed access to health care

Massachusetts regulators would eliminate many prior authorization rules, speed urgent approvals and form a working group to ...
GBH

New state health insurance rules aim to reduce delays in patient care

Under new state regulations, doctors will no longer need to seek pre-approval from a patient’s health insurer before ...

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

The idea behind it seems reasonable: Insurers want to ensure treatments are medically necessary before they pay for them. But ...
Becker's Hospital Review

93% of health plan executives expect AI to ease prior authorization: Deloitte

Health plan executives expect AI to automate prior authorizations, improving turnaround times amid CMS regulatory changes, ...
CNN

States target health insurers’ ‘prior authorization’ red tape

Christopher Marks noticed an immediate improvement when his doctor prescribed him the Type 2 diabetes medication Mounjaro last year. The 40-year-old truck driver from Kansas City, Missouri, said his ...
JD Supra

Health Plans’ Commitment to Prior Authorization Improvements: What’s New Versus What’s Already Required

Health plan members of AHIP and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association made news earlier this week when they announced a series of steps that a broad swath of health insurers will take to improve ...

Health insurers face new restrictions as Healey moves to end prior authorizations, long hated by many

Prior authorizations have long been hated by many, but insurers call them an essential tool they use to control spending.
KHQ

Prior Authorization: AHIP’s Commitments

Introduction In August, AHIP, the trade association for health insurance companies representing the industry’s top players, announced that they reached a deal with the White House to reform prior ...

South Country Health Alliance Selects Itiliti Health’s PA Checkpoint to Streamline Prior Authorization Transparency

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, UNITED STATES, January 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Itiliti Health is proud to announce that South ...

R1 Prior Authorization, Now Powered by the Phare OS, Accelerates Care, Reduces Costs and Improves Accuracy

Powered by Phare Access – the smart patient access hub of R1’s Phare Operating System – R1 Prior Authorization manages the ...

South Florida congresswoman pushes back on Medicare prior authorization

Rep. Lois Frankel said she is pushing back against a movement to add prior-authorization requirements to Medicare and to use ...

Itiliti Health Receives WEDI’s Innovation in Health IT Award for Advancing Prior Authorization Automation

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, UNITED STATES, January 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Itiliti Health, a leader in prior authorization ...