Major companies had faced mounting pressure to stop denying or stalling authorization of coverage for treatments and ...

LINCOLN — On June 5, Gov. Jim Pillen signed the Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act (LB 77) into law.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, along with HCSC's other Blues plans in Texas, Montana, New Mexico and Oklahoma, on April 15 began requiring prior authorization for in-office administration ...

The personal information of more than 9,300 people may have been exposed in a recent data breach at health insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, according to the company. Blue Cross and ...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, for approval to go to the center for her care, and the company granted it, a process known as prior authorization. Then, a week or so before her surgery ...

Starting today, Blue Cross Blue Shield will mandate that severe asthma patients self-administer their drugs at home, unless their provider gets prior approval from the insurance company.

So it was “devastating,” she said, to hear on Tuesday, April 1, that her private health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas ... payments or issues like prior authorization, by which ...

MISSOULA, Mont. – Starting April 15, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana will require prior authorization for certain asthma injections in a clinic setting. The change will affect several FDA-approved ...

Therapists say insurers repeatedly require prior authorization, demanding a new request every ... She was discharged after her mother’s insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, denied her ...

Other companies with high/extremely high prior authorization burdens include Humana (64%), Anthem/Elevance (59%), Aetna (57%), Cigna (55%), and Blue Cross Blue Shield (54%).

UW Health's agreement with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Wisconsin is set to expire ... patients already struggle with the overuse of prior authorization requirements imposed by Anthem," UW ...