3 ways to take the pain out of prior authorizations3 ways to take the pain out of prior authorizations 2 | athenahealth.com It’s no secret: Prior authorizations are slowing you down Can you guess which one task accounts for nearly two days of your staff’s work each week to support the average physician? Physicians and practice staff spend nearly 15 hours securing 31 prior authorizations per physician each week. 1 Over the course of a year, that can add up to as much as $85,000 spent to support the needs of a full-time physician. 2 Too often, that time is wasted —a nurse could spend 45 minutes on hold with a payer only to learn that a prior authorization is not needed for the service being ordered. Average staff time spent on authorizations 15 hours per week on . . . 31 auth

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