May 29 () - UnitedHealth's insurance unit on Friday said it would eliminate prior approval requirements for ‌about two-thirds of its healthcare services for members under ‌age 18, as insurers aim to ...

UnitedHealthcare is taking a big step to make healthcare access easier.

Patients in Iowa will soon no longer need to wonder if their health insurance companies will approve certain care their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prior authorization: For patients and doctors, insurance can be an unfair game A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance ...

The largest U.S. health insurer said it will eliminate approval requirements for some treatments, including select outpatient ...

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When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to ease her neurological pain, she prepared for battle. It took years, a chain of ...

Insurance red tape is delaying care, driving up costs and consuming hours of physicians' time — and patients are paying the price.

As doctors, we do our best to spend time with patients and make medical decisions that are best for their health. These days, insurance companies are making it increasingly difficult to do both. They ...

When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest. As a smoker for 40 years, Chestnut was at high risk for lung cancer. A specialist ...

InvestigateTV also contacted a healthcare information educator in Louisiana, Jacqueline Jones, who replicated a portion of the team’s research. Jones looked at sub-set of tests and procedures and the ...

A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance company for access to medications to manage his excruciating pain. An oncologist is forced to delay needed treatments while arguing for health insurance ...