Medical Xpress August 2, 2024
Prior authorization—the process by which a health insurance company denies or approves coverage for a health care service before the service is performed—became standard practice beginning with Medicare and Medicaid legislation in the 1960s.
Although research has uncovered disparities in prior coverage for cancer patients based on race, little has been known to date on the role of prior authorization in increasing or decreasing these disparities.
To learn more about the issue, Benjamin Ukert, Ph.D., an assistant professor of health policy and management in the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, and a colleague at Penn State conducted a retrospective study of data provided by a major national commercial insurance provider on 18,041 patients diagnosed with cancer between Jan....
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