Last summer, the insurance industry broadly agreed to reform a major healthcare pain point: prior authorization. Now, two of the industry's leading organizations are offering a look at progress toward ...

For the first time, payers must publicly post data on how often they deny prior authorization requests, how quickly they process them and how often denials are overturned on appeal. The first reports ...

US health insurers have made it easier for doctors to get approval before providing certain types of treatment, industry groups said, calling it a sign of progress toward alleviating burdensome delays ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, ...

Kokotajlo also pointed to intense industry competition as a key risk factor. A former OpenAI researcher has warned that rapid advances in artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to ...

Merlin could disappear in worst-case scenario, with British isles facing ecological ‘point of no return’ The merlin, Britain’s smallest bird of prey, is one of more than 200 species that will become ...

The U.N. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) on Sunday approved the listing of 40 new species for international protection, including the snowy owl featured in ...

Griffith University's Dr Andrea Jalandoni inside a cave where the paintings showing Tasmanian tigers have been documented. Source: Griffith University/Harry J Burrell Newly released images of a ...

Scientists tracked bird population in Canberra’s botanic gardens and found climate impacts starting to affect them Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, ...

The superb fairy-wren is likely to be extinct within 30-40 years, researchers from the Australian National University have found. In a new study published in the journal Nature, the research team said ...

The UK is one of the most nature depleted nations on Earth – and it’s about to get worse. Climate change and habitat loss will see numerous plants, butterflies and birds lost by the end of the century ...