Cigna is the latest health insurer to roll back prior authorization requirements, announcing Thursday that it will no longer require the approvals for nearly 25% of medical services. Cigna plans to ...

The Cigna Group’s CI health benefits business, Cigna Healthcare, lifted the prior authorization (or precertification) requirement for around 25% of its medical services, which amounts to 600-plus ...

Cigna Healthcare, the health benefits provider of the Cigna Group, will be removing close to 25% of medical services from prior authorization requirements, the insurer said today. With the removal of ...

UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are revamping their prior authorization processes as new federal regulations aiming to ease the burden on providers and patients loom. UnitedHealthcare will eliminate ...

On Monday, commercial insurer Cigna said it is no longer requiring prior authorization for certain CT exams, including those involving the heart, coronary arteries and bypass grafts with contrast.

BLOOMFIELD, Conn., Aug. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cigna Healthcare, the health benefits provider of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), announced the removal of nearly 25 percent of medical services from prior ...

While prior authorization is a key tool in an insurer's arsenal as it thinks about managing costs, the process remains a key source of friction with physicians. Amid a nationwide conversation around ...

Cigna Healthcare is removing nearly 25 percent of medical services from prior authorization requirements, cutting more than 600 codes. Since 2020, Cigna has removed more than 1,100 medical services to ...

BrainsWay (BWAY) traded higher on Wednesday after the Israeli MedTech announced that Cigna’s (CI) Evernorth Behavioral Health unit has decided to remove prior authorization requirements for TMS ...

America’s Health Insurance Plans, one of the largest trade groups for the health insurance industry, debuted a prior authorization pilot in January that aims to fast-track the process. The Fast Prior ...

Cigna will no longer require prior authorization for some CT scans of the heart, according to an updated precertification list. The change is effective Feb. 1. Cigna will end prior authorizations for ...