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UnitedHealthcare to Eliminate 30% of Prior Authorizations by Year-End: A Strategic Shift Toward Transparency and Rural S...

What You Should Know UnitedHealthcare (UHC) will eliminate an additional 30% of prior authorization requirements by the end of 2026, targeting outpatient surgeries, diagnostic test...

Healthcare Dealmakers—UConn Health grows, Centene subsidiaries merge and more

UnitedHealth Group's plans to acquire a tech platform, TruBridge to be acquired for $557 million and more merger and acquisition news from April.

UnitedHealthcare to reduce prior auth requirements by 30%

UnitedHealthcare announced Tuesday that it will further ease prior authorization requirements for a slew of services.

UnitedHealthcare expands rural hospital payment program to Alabama

UnitedHealthcare expands rural hospital payment program to Alabama

UnitedHealthcare Expands Rural Healthcare Initiatives, Reduces Prior Auth Requirements

UnitedHealthcare is exempting rural providers from most prior authorization requirements. The post UnitedHealthcare Expands Rural Healthcare Initiatives, Reduces Prior Auth Require...

UnitedHealthcare to eliminate prior authorization for 30% of services

UnitedHealthcare plans to eliminate prior authorization requirements for 30% of services by the end of 2026.

UnitedHealthcare Launches GenAI Companion ‘Avery’ for Members

What You Should Know The Launch: UnitedHealthcare (UHC) has introduced Avery, a generative AI companion integrated directly into the UnitedHealthcare app and myuhc.com. The Scale:...

UnitedHealthcare to eliminate prior authorization for 30% of services

UnitedHealthcare plans to eliminate prior authorization requirements for 30% of services by the end of 2026.

Solace Health expands care navigation services to commercially insured patients

Solace previously connected Medicare and Medicare Advantage patients to its services, which are now also available to many commercially insured patients, including UnitedHealthcare...

UnitedHealthcare Vows to Cut Down Use of Prior Reviews for Kids’ Care

UnitedHealthcare is eliminating prior-approval requirements for two-thirds of children's covered services by year-end, targeting cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, and routine sur...

UnitedHealth Stock Jumps After Q1 Beat — Here's What Execs Say Drove It

UNH stock jumps more than 8% after the health insurance giant delivered a strong first-quarter earnings beat and raised its profit outlook. Importance Rank: ...

UnitedHealthcare to Remove Prior Authorization for 30% of Services

UnitedHealthcare will eliminate prior authorizations for 30% of services by year-end — a change that 93% of surveyed doctors say is long overdue.

UnitedHealthcare to nix nearly two thirds of pediatric prior auths

UnitedHealthcare is set to eliminate close to two-thirds of pediatric prior authorization requirements by the end of the year.

UnitedHealthcare Promises to Ease Prior Authorization Burden for Rural Hospitals

UnitedHealthcare (UHC) promises to exempt roughly 1,500 rural hospitals and all critical access hospitals from most prior authorization requirements across all lines of business by...

UnitedHealth: The CMS Boost Changes Everything Now

UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna tout progress to standardize prior authorization as part of industry-wide commitment

Major health insurers are advancing efforts to standardize prior authorization requirements as part of an effort to simplify paperwork for providers and reduce delays in medical ca...

UnitedHealth, CVS standardize prior authorization rules

Carriers are racing to deliver on sweeping commitments as Washington tightens the screws

Healthcare AI News 5/6/26

News UnitedHealth Group will eliminate prior authorization requirements for 30% ...

Massachusetts AG sues UnitedHealthcare over alleged Medicaid fraud

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell is suing UnitedHealthcare, alleging that the insurance giant "manipulated the health status" of Medicaid members to secure higher...

Does UnitedHealthcare Cover Addiction Treatment?

UnitedHealthcare covers all major levels of addiction treatment in California — detox, residential, IOP, and dual diagnosis. Here’s how to verify your specific plan. The post Does...

UnitedHealth Group Reports Flat First-Quarter Earnings

One of the nation’s largest insurers, the company’s profits were higher than analysts’ expectations but still fell short of showing a significant comeback.

Parsley Health Wins Greater Insurance Coverage for its Functional Medicine

Parsley Health is now in-network with major insurers nationwide, including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Cigna. The post Parsley Health Wins Greater Insurance Coverage for its Functi...

UnitedHealth to expand rural payment acceleration pilot program

UnitedHealth Group announced plans to expand its Rural Payment Acceleration Pilot to reduce Medicare Advantage payment processing times for rural hospita...

This Healthcare Giant Is Quietly Becoming an AI Powerhouse

UnitedHealth has engineered a turnaround, in part by adopting AI tools.