Massachusetts insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval requirements for "many routine and essential" health care services, Gov. Maura Healey ...

Medicare is launching a new pilot program that will require prior approval for 17 health services using artificial intelligence tools. The Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model is ...

Prior authorization has long been a sticking point between payers and providers, with payers arguing that it’s necessary to control costs and ensure that care is medically necessary and providers ...

Beret Leone is a native Minnesotan who joined the WCCO team as a reporter in September 2022 - and she's thrilled be back home in the Twin Cities! Beret grew up in Chaska and graduated from Bethel ...

Prior authorization (PA) is a utilization management technique used by health insurers that requires providers to seek approval from the insurance plan before the plan will agree to pay for a covered ...

A partnership between a Minneapolis-based developer and a Chicago-based investment firm has purchased a mixed-use industrial campus in St. Paul best known as the home of Can Can Wonderland The Prior ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Recently, we put together a template to help medical professionals explain a confusing process. Readers gave us very pointed feedback, so we updated it. By Ron Lieber Two months ago, I shared my tale ...

University of Montreal professor Yoshua Bengio is considered one of the “godfathers of AI,” whose academic work set the groundwork for today’s red hot AI arms race. He’s also the founder and ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for life on Earth–and the current harm we’re doing to our own environment–we have to look into the past. But, ...

The proportion of Medicare Part D beneficiaries subject to prior authorization for GLP-1 drugs jumped from just a fraction through 2023 to nearly all by 2025. Out-of-pocket costs likewise were steady ...