A new study finds that prior authorization requirements vary widely across major insurers and suggests large language models ...

Prior authorization today is a far cry from its limited origins, when private insurers used it to scrutinize the necessity of hospital admissions. But what began in the 1960s as a relatively modest ...

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

Editor’s Note: This story was published last year, before the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, which is drawing renewed attention to how the insurance industry denies care to patients.