Dr. Debra Shapiro and her staff spend hours in their Cambridge practice each week asking permission from insurers to prescribe their primary care patients certain medications and procedures. The ...

McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. May 14, 2026 – Reforming prior authorization processes has been on the regulatory menu for a while.

The proposed rule aims to improve prior authorization for prescription drugs by requiring electronic prior authorization, setting deadlines, and promoting transparency through annual reporting. The ...

Health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare said on May 5 it will eliminate prior-approval requirements for 30% of health care services amid complaints that administrative tasks delay or deny people care.

The company said, by the end of 2026, it will remove prior authorization requirements for certain outpatient surgeries, diagnostic tests such as echocardiograms, and some outpatient therapies and ...

For years, prior authorization has remained among the most contentious pressure points between payers and providers, but those tensions may finally be seeing tangible improvement. Over the last year, ...

UnitedHealthcare is the latest insurance company to scale back pre-authorization requirements by 30%, which means more treatments and medications prescribed by doctors can be processed without ...

UnitedHealthcare is eliminating authorization requirements for 30% of healthcare services that previously required insurer approval, the nation's largest insurer said. Prior authorization is currently ...

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Major health insurance companies on Friday said they were accelerating efforts to streamline prior authorization requirements and reduce administrative burdens for providers. The commitment was signed ...

U.S. health insurers are accelerating efforts to streamline prior authorization requirements, with UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Cigna on Friday detailing progress toward industry commitments aimed at ...

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