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Complying with health insurance companies’ prior authorization requirements is demanding ever-increasing resources from patient access. The authors of multiple recent studies found these requirements also stop patients from receiving needed — and sometimes life-saving — medical care.
Patients tend to become anxious when scheduled care is cancelled due to authorization holdups. This happened so often in one system that a decision was made to change the process. If the payer takes too long to give an answer one way or the other, things go forward as planned anyway.
It is hard to dispute the fact that prior authorization requirements place a heavy burden on both patients and providers. Yet the number of services and medications requiring auths continues to increase. Read on to learn about several trends.
Denied claims for urgent, medically necessary procedures are no laughing matter. Patient access staff have to appeal each denial, a time-consuming and expensive process. A New York law states that if a patient presents with unexpected complications or requires additional services in the course of treatment, a health insurer will no longer be able to deny payment due to lack of prior authorization.
