Staff at Arkansas' Harmony Park Family Medicine have been excited about streamlining the prior authorization process with the goal of improving patient access to high-quality care. Prior authorization ...
Physicians groups on January 17 hailed a new federal rule requiring health insurers to streamline and disclose more information about their prior authorization processes, saying it will improve ...
Prior authorizations are a critical part of the revenue cycle as they impact both reimbursement and patient access to care, and automation may help simplify the process. Many prior authorization ...
Imposing a new prior authorization requirement increased the likelihood that older patients with cancer will delay or stop filling their prescription for oral anticancer drugs, a new study showed.
Providers are betting on artificial intelligence to ease the pain point of prior authorization, a new survey shows. Cohere Health, which provides clinical intelligence to insurers and risk-bearing ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way we live and work in dramatic ways. Among the many changes to the delivery of care, prior authorization processes have been suspended by many payer ...
In an effort to soften the payer/provider relationship, many large health insurers are rolling back on prior authorizations. UnitedHealthcare (UHC) is the latest to cut back on its prior authorization ...
There are 5 steps to prior authorization when looking at it from a best practice standpoint. These steps include demographics, eligibility, determination, submission, and status retrieval. Tune into ...
The need to fix healthcare’s antiquated prior authorization (PA) process remains a hot-button issue in the industry, garnering policy attention and spurring the development of myriad technology ...
Health insurers covering more than 250 million Americans have unveiled a sweeping plan to streamline and reduce prior authorization requirements — a long-standing source of frustration and burnout for ...
Over 35 million prior authorization requests were submitted to Medicare Advantage insurers in 2021, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Two million of these requests, or ...