Osteonecrosis of the jaw is a rare but serious condition linked to medications such as bisphosphonates and denosumab. Patients with CKD, already prone to bone fragility due to mineral metabolism ...

When Lou and Lindsay Volpe’s son was diagnosed with a chronic bowel disease at age 11, their health insurer required constant ...

Patients and their health care providers are saying it’s time Montana joined many other states in limiting how and when insurers can deny drugs or treatments through their preapproval process.

Dallas, filed a bill this legislative session to prohibit insurance companies from requiring prior authorization before covering medications intended to prevent the ...

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bill to limit the use of prior authorizations for state health plans like ...

1. The bill, titled the Doctors Know Best Act, was proposed in early January. It would prohibit any group health plans, insurance providers and federal healthcare programs from utilizing prior ...

In November of last year, they received a positive opinion for marketing authorization of the Prolia biosimilar from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use ...

Health insurers now routinely refuse to pay for more expensive drugs or procedures until they have issued a “prior authorization.” Prior authorization is designed to prevent a physician from ...

Debra Patt, MD, PhD, MBA, MPH, warns that prior authorization barriers are delaying critical cancer treatments and urges a regulatory fix for Stark Law restrictions on mailing oral oncolytics.

them mentality. In Massachusetts, health plans are required by state law to collaborate with physicians to develop medical necessity guidelines used for prior authorization. With this strong ...

You’ll typically need to work with your provider to submit a prior authorization request. If you decide to take over the ...

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