{"id":24553,"date":"2025-06-25T08:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24553"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:19:57","slug":"5-takeaways-from-health-insurers-new-pledge-to-improve-prior-authorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24553","title":{"rendered":"5 Takeaways From Health Insurers\u2019 New Pledge To Improve Prior Authorization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Lauren Sausser and Phil Galewitz for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers\u2019 practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of insurance companies, including Cigna, Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare, agreed to several measures, which include making fewer medical procedures subject to prior authorization and speeding up the review process. Insurers also pledged to use clear language when communicating with patients and promised that medical professionals would review coverage denials.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/5-takeaways-from-insurers-pledge-to-improve-prior-authorization\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/5-takeaways-from-insurers-pledge-to-improve-prior-authorization\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"57\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width:175px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lauren Sausser and Phil Galewitz for KFF Health News) Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20,53,846],"tags":[80,261,442],"class_list":["post-24553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-hhs","category-prior-authorization","tag-cms","tag-hhs","tag-prior-authorization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24554,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24553\/revisions\/24554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}