Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON (SHNS) – State insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval ...

Health insurers are cautioning that prior authorization reforms could worsen health care cost increases, but a stream of doctors say the current system is plagued by administrative burdens and ...

Critics warn that health savings accounts aren’t the fix some suggest they may be. The financial risks for patients are ...

Advocates of the health care bills now pending in Congress, led by the President, have been calling for health care reform. They argue that our health care system is unsustainable as it is. Not only ...

HHS proposed three new rules today related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the rules involved several major portions of the law, including essential health benefits, health ...

Dr. Cooper is an associate professor of public health and economics at Yale. The debate over whether to extend the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies has consumed lawmakers over the past two ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts health insurers will be required to streamline, and in some cases scrap altogether, pre-approval for many routine medical procedures and medications under proposed new state ...

Federal cuts to Medicaid will end up increasing costs to the nation’s health care system as low-income people who lose their coverage will seek treatment in emergency rooms and other high-cost ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – State insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval requirements for “many routine and essential” health care services, Gov. Maura ...