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Doctors and patients try to shame insurers online to reverse prior authorization denials 

Insurers say prior authorization helps control costs, but patients say the process causes delays or denies access to treatment. That’s why desperate patients and even some physicians have turned to publicly shaming insurance companies on social media to get tests, drugs, and treatments approved. 

Brain surgery training from an avatar 

MIT.nano Immersion Lab works with AR/VR startup to create transcontinental medical instruction. 

With medical debt burdening millions, a financial regulator steps in to help 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has increasingly started policing the health care system. 

How Nebraska Medicine is bucking nurse turnover 

After Nebraska Medicine turned to AI, the organization was able to reduce first-year nurse turnover by 40%.