In American health care, the first opinion that matters often isn’t the doctors, it’s the insurers. That may be changing. At ...

Prior authorization refers to when medical providers have to get approval from insurers before performing a service. Patients ...

Burned-out primary care physicians are increasingly seeking safe haven in concierge care and other free-market models of ...

Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Oz recently announced they are working with health insurers to ease the "prior authorization" process for patients to get care.

This 80-year-old physician is a lifeline during brutal winters in the Caucasus Mountains. Irakli Khvedaguridze, 80, is the only licensed doctor across nearly 386 square miles of mountainous land ...

Major insurers say they’ll ease up on the prior-authorization practice that can delay necessary care for patients.

Major companies had faced mounting pressure to stop denying or stalling authorization of coverage for treatments and ...