For years, utilization management (UM) was quietly delegated away for scale, speed, and supposed efficiency. But today, health plans are hitting the breaking point. Prior authorizations, a core ...

People are slowly making their way back to Chicago offices. As of September, Chicago’s central business district was 63.5% as busy as it was in September 2019, prepandemic, according to Avison Young’s ...

Between 2013 and 2023, CT imaging utilization within emergency departments increased from 18.7 to 36.5 per 100 Medicare beneficiaries, according to a study published Sept. 30 in Radiology. Here are ...

Medicare Advantage (MA) has been a consistent earnings booster for insurers, but recent challenges in this space are likely to ding profitability, according to a new report. Analysts at AM Best found ...

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The administrative burden of utilization review processes like prior authorizations and concurrent review has long been a thorn in the side of healthcare providers. While prior authorizations have ...

BEIJING, Aug 5 (Reuters) - China's renewable power potential in far-flung provinces is increasingly going unused, official statistics showed on Monday, as the country rushes to build more ...

Reports have emerged that TSMC's advanced packaging technology, CoWoS, is operating at only 60% capacity utilization. Such a supply-demand mismatch has confused the supply chain. Capacity distribution ...

A score was developed to measure patient risk from payer utilization management policies and its relationship to real-world US commercial payer utilization management policies. Objectives: To (1) ...

The offshore rig market recovery appears to have taken a pause, with demand tapering off and marketed utilization hitting the lowest levels recorded since recovery began in 2021. A variety of factors ...

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