In January of 2022 the No Surprises Act was passed into law. Oftentimes, when a patient receives medical care outside of the health insurance company’s provider network, the patient is faced with steep out of pocket costs. The legislation recognizes the fact that there is a difference between choosing to see an out of network […]
United Healthcare recently announced that it plans on reducing the number of medical services requiring prior authorization. Today the insurer processes around 600 million claims per year, 13 million of which require prior authorization before the claim will be covered. United hopes to reduce the number of prior authorizations to 10 million a year. The […]
Arizona Employers That Offer Group Health Insurance Approximately 600,000 Arizonans will lose Medicaid (AHCCCS) coverage beginning April 1st, 2023, and ending in July. The federal government would not allow states to end Medicaid coverage for those that qualified for coverage elsewhere. Now that the COVID Public Health Emergency has officially ended states may begin cleaning […]
