A 2017, survey conducted by the AMA (American Medical Association), seriously discussed about the patient/physician impact with prior authorization. Almost 64% of practices report to wait for at least one business day to wait for PA decision from a health plan.

• Nearly, 30% complain the time taken to be three business days. For the patients whose treatment requires prior authorization, the process delay is acute to necessary care. A whopping 92% report in care delays as well as abandonment of treatment with prior authorizations.
• The physician perspective on the burdens with PA is quite relative. Almost 84% consider it to be a serious headache and almost the same number; (86%) complain that it has only increased over the last five years.
• The additional fact sheet on the PA burdens explains it all! The volume is on an average nearly 29.1 per physician on a weekly basis. Approximately two business days are getting spent each week by the physician and their staff on completing the workload with PA.
• The practice resources are also getting consumed with 34% of physicians work exclusive on PA’s reducing their productive hours with care management.
• The repetition in the PA process especially for prescription medication is a sore challenge. 79% of the physicians repeat PA's when a patient is stabilized on a treatment regime for a condition that is chronic.

Precisely, the industry leaders are of the opinion that our healthcare system should be designed to help the patients. Better provider payer communication is a must to achieve the objective of a realistic value based care support system.

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