Prior authorization is a complex and time consuming process that eats up a significant chunk of effort in the revenue cycle. Today with the rising prior auth request, providers are not only ending up spending more time managing and filling up complex authorization but their valuable time is being compromised solely on per auth request submission and status checking.
According to a recent survey, approximately 12 min on average is spent per prior authorization, that’s 12 minutes your team could spend focusing on patient care and expanding the business.
Current prior authorization challenges:
- Staffing challenges – today most healthcare practices are dealing with staffing shortages stemming from the pandemic. From the front desk to the back office, employees are in short supply especially in the healthcare sector due to the rising burnout today. Practices in rural areas are hit especially hard, as their talent pool is smaller.
- According to a recent survey by AKASA with more than 400 healthcare finance leaders reported of understaffed departments, coupled with rising prior authorization requests, is the result leading to employee stress, burnout, and unmanageable queues.
- The constant change in the regulations - Payer rules and requirements are frequently changing, making the task of staying regularly and on top of prior auth even more difficult especially for in-house team; thus, resulting in increasing the odds of denials or underpayments.
- Lack of dedicated prior authorization experts – today it is extremely difficult to find authorization experts at a cost effective rate. This leaves your team scrambling to communicate with the physician, get the codes as quickly as possible, and then promptly submit timely additional auth requests for those codes and delay the overall processes. This is why healthcare practices are looking out for an operational extension support that not only helps in better prior auth transactions but is also easy to their pocket in today’s rising healthcare expenses.
Sunknowledge – a cost effective prior authorization destination:
Taking care of all your prior auth initiation, approval and follow up right from the start, Sunknowledge offers a complete solution at only $ 7 an hour without compromising on the productivity standard. Ensuring 100 % authorization submission on the same day, constant follow up and scrutinizing, the expert today ensures better authorization solutions than most in the industry.
Taking care of all your complex prior authorization in no time and helping you focus more on patient care, Sunknowledge today is popularly known for saving tons of money and resources time’s.
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