The payer's senior director of business operations speaks on a new pilot program that significantly reduces approval times. Leveraging automation is a strategy healthcare organizations everywhere are ...

Mayo Clinic and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota have signed a five-year agreement that expands a value-based care contract. The contract, to run from 2019 to 2023, includes some downside risk ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has said that in an effort to expand access and affordability for members, it's further reforming its process to relax approximately 20% of prior authorization ...

DETROIT, Sept. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, a national leader in streamlined prior authorization programs, is further reforming its process to relax approximately 20% of ...

Trent Haywood, MD, the former CMO of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, took a new role at a company providing benefit check and prior authorization technology to clinical labs, home infusion and ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has announced a new effort to reduce prior authorization requirements by 20 percent in order to improve healthcare quality and access while reducing administrative ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will eliminate 20% of prior authorization requirements, joining big players such as UnitedHealth Group and Cigna in responding to complaints about what providers ...

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As Congress takes a close look at prior authorization, payer groups are defending the practice, which they say is a crucial tool to prevent unneeded treatments and can control soaring healthcare costs ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama says it is reforming the process for getting prior authorization for insurance coverage of certain medical procedures and drugs - promising a simpler, more efficient ...