Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt stated the prior authorization process in health care is "definitely broken." Schmidt indicated to lawmakers that any legislative efforts to reform the ...

CVS Health (CVS) on Thursday announced that it plans to make a large portion of its prior authorization procedures consistent with cross-payer clinical and technology standards. Therefore, the company ...

Massachusetts health insurers will face new restrictions around the much-maligned practice of prior authorizations, eliminating the red tape around how patients access some drugs and services, ...

Abridge and Availity are partnering to develop a real-time prior authorization experience integrating utilization management directly into the clinician/patient conversation to streamline interactions ...

Abridge has teamed its AI platform for clinical conversations with Availity’s digital platform that connects payers and providers to enable payer determination during a patient visit. The ...

Starting with the development of real-time prior authorization and extending conversational intelligence across the revenue cycle. Abridge, the leading enterprise-grade AI for clinical conversations, ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Abridge is partnering with real-time health information network Availity to fire up AI-powered prior authorization, expanding the reach of real-time coverage approval to more providers.

AI clinical conversation platform Abridge is partnering with health information network Availity to launch a real-time prior authorization tool integrated into clinician workflows. The collaboration ...

Traditional Medicare in six states will soon feel more like privatized Medicare Advantage, using prior authorizations to determine what care can be covered for older adults. Starting in January, about ...

Recently, we put together a template to help medical professionals explain a confusing process. Readers gave us very pointed feedback, so we updated it. By Ron Lieber Two months ago, I shared my tale ...

A breast cancer diagnosis should trigger immediate action. But for many patients, the journey to treatment begins with delays, often caused by outdated prior authorization (PA) processes. Designed to ...

The US Senate on Thursday approved an amendment to repeal two authorizations for the use of military force (AUMFs) in Iraq, a significant push to restore Congressional war-making powers more than 20 ...