New requirements will require patients on a United commercial plan to ... as well as within each healthcare provider’s practice, because now we need people to fill out these prior authorization forms, ...

UnitedHealth Group is taking another step to refine its prior authorization requirements as it continues to face public frustration. The healthcare giant’s insurance business, UnitedHealthcare ...

United Healthcare (UHC) has announced it will not go forward with a plan to require prior authorization for colonoscopies and other endoscopic procedures. Instead, the giant health insurer will ...

UnitedHealthcare, an insurer of approximately 45 million people worldwide, has announced changes to its prior authorization rules for gastroenterology care that will take effect June 1. Beginning in ...

After an uproar from patients and health care providers, UHC changed its strategy at the 11th hour. With the clock ticking down before its intrusive prior authorization policy went into effect ...

UnitedHealthcare is launching a program next month geared toward streamlining prior authorization for qualifying providers. The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary's "gold card" program, offered across ...

UnitedHealthcare announced on Wednesday that it will reduce the use of its prior authorization process by 20% for some non-urgent surgeries and procedures. "Prior authorizations help ensure member ...

Doctors who do not provide the advance notification will be disqualified from United’s “gold card” program, a status that allows doctors to bypass all prior authorizations. “It was ...

“A pause in the June 1 launch of UHC’s prior authorization policy requires the GI societies to publicly support this alternative proposal by early next week. Our patients’ health is at stake ...

They represent the next step in our ongoing efforts to modernize the prior authorization process and simplify the health care experience for members and health care professionals.” The families ...