Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an immediate pause on gender-affirming care for all active duty service members in a ...

In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a ...

President Donald Trump suffered a legal setback Thursday when a federal judge in Baltimore issued a temporary restraining ...

But the protections apply only to care that health plans determine is "medically necessary" — and insurers get to define what that means in each case. According to its coverage denial letter ...

When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs.

It is now illegal to use artificial intelligence to deny any medically necessary health insurance claims in California now that a new bill has gone into effect. The Physicians Make Decisions Act ...

A bill making its way through the Colorado state legislature this session aims to increase access to mental health care.

The bill would make it harder for insurance companies to deny coverage and require them to provide the criteria used to deny coverage based on medical necessity. Other news includes: suicide trends in ...

her health insurance company did not deem it "medically necessary," leaving the mother of three to scrape up $73,000 all on her own. The woman who lost her hand in a shark attack was forced to ...

The new Canada Health Act Services Policy will require that medically necessary services provided by nonphysicians are publicly funded.

Medicare does not generally cover ear cleaning. However, in some cases, a doctor will consider earwax removal medically necessary. As a result, some parts of Medicare may cover the procedure.

Ottawa is now opening the door to allow health care practitioners other than doctors — nurse practitioners, pharmacists, midwives — to provide medically necessary care to be covered by ...