A Blue Cross Blue Shield policy will force some patients to self-inject medicine, with potentially dangerous results.

“This bill actually starts to move the needle when it comes to prior authorization requests ... while Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, the dominant health insurance company in Iowa, is ...

“Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, along with our vendors acting on our behalf, do not use artificial intelligence for a ...

So it was “devastating,” she said, to hear on Tuesday, April 1, that her private health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas ... payments or issues like prior authorization, by which ...

Other companies with high/extremely high prior authorization burdens include Humana (64%), Anthem/Elevance (59%), Aetna (57%), Cigna (55%), and Blue Cross Blue Shield (54%). For more information, see ...

Medicare’s shift toward privatization could get a significant boost if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services embraces ...

Cigna announced in 2023 that it would remove nearly 25% of medical services form its prior authorization requirements. These announcements have been a long time coming after the AMA issued a 2018 ...

Longstanding conceptions of secular charter and religious private schools could be upended by an imminent high court decision ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield now requires prior authorization for severe asthma drugs administered in-office for patients in five states, including Oklahoma. The change affects patients with BCBS coverage ...