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 ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Book a Prior Year in Adjustment Accounting

Although companies should always report accurate information in their financial statements, this does not always happen, and sometimes the error is not caught until ...
The New York Times

When ‘Prior Authorization’ Becomes a Medical Roadblock

Medicare Advantage plans say it reduces waste and inappropriate care. Critics say it often restricts coverage unnecessarily. By Paula Span Slowly but steadily, Marlene Nathanson was recovering. She ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Prior Authorizations and the Adverse Impact on Continuity of Care

Prior authorizations create substantial administrative and financial burdens on physicians and patients and can disrupt the continuity of care. This commentary discusses the current prior ...
CNN

Insurers promised to ease a major patient pain point after executive’s murder. Here’s what’s happened

A year ago, the fatal shooting of a health insurance executive on a Manhattan sidewalk unleashed many Americans’ pent-up frustration with insurers’ delays and denials of care. UnitedHealthcare CEO ...
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.
STAT

Plans to test prior authorization in traditional Medicare are deeply troubling

Berwick is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is a senior fellow for health policy and Ducas is the VP of health policy at the Center for American Progress.