Health Care Declines After Molina Warning - Health Care Roundup

Health-care companies fell amid renewed concerns about health insurers' profitability. Molina Healthcare echoed larger peers with a profit warning, citing rising medical costs and "off-cycle ... Read More

5 takeaways from health insurers’ new pledge to improve prior authorization

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

Health Care Declines as Insurers Weigh - Health Care Roundup

Health-care companies declined as a rout in health-insurance shares continued because of increased government oversight of Medicare payments. UnitedHealth Group continued its retreat, while Humana ... Read More

Doctors Say Dealing With Health Insurers Is Only Getting Worse - MSN

Medicare Advantage plans, a popular form of health insurance, denied 7.4% of 46.2 million requests submitted on behalf of enrollees in 2022, up from 5.7% in 2019, according to an analysis of ... Read More

Health insurance companies vow changes to prior authorization - USA TODAY

Large health insurance companies vowed to cut down the use of and improve a common tool to vet requests before letting doctors bill for medical services or prescriptions. UnitedHealthcare, Blue ... Read More

Offering health insurance is becoming less lucrative

In the third quarter, the seven major publicly traded insurers’ medical loss ratios increased an average of 3.3 percentage points year over year — a major jump in medical costs. Read More

Health insurers move to streamline prior authorization process, promising quicker care - CBS News

Private insurers are working to ease the prior authorization process. Here's what that means. 02:12 UnitedHealthcare, Kaiser Permanente and other major U.S. health insurers say they want to make ... Read More

Health insurers see signs of life in Q1 - Yahoo Finance

Payer profits fell in 2024 as Americans, especially older ones, utilized more medical care. But efforts to resuscitate margins appear to be working for most — at least for now, according to ... Read More

Health insurers promise to simplify care preapproval process

The insurers’ pledge is the first step in a broader reform effort to simplify the administrative workflow and take paperwork out of the health care process, Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the ... Read More