Virginia’s Medicaid program, Cardinal Care, has chosen Humana Inc. HUM as one of five insurers to administer services through ...

Plaintiffs allege that all major health insurers in the U.S., including UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna, Humana and Blue Cross And ...

Health-care companies rose sharply amid hopes that insurers' revenue would not be significantly altered by the tax-and-spending bill that passed the Senate. Health insurers such as UnitedHealth Group, ...

The changes to prior authorization will be phased in over the next year and a half, the companies said. In all, insurers said the changes would apply to 257 million Americans covered by private ...

The largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system. Here are five takeaways.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that several of the nation's largest health ...

Phil Galewitz, senior correspondent, covers Medicaid, Medicare, long-term care, hospitals, and various state health issues.

More than 40 payers have voluntarily committed to significant prior authorization reforms, but will this time be any different?

Roughly three-quarters of the nation’s health insurance providers signed a series of commitments this week in an effort to ...

Health insurance companies are set to streamline, simplify and reduce the pre-approval process by transitioning to an ...