Today the process of prior authorization has become one of the growing sources of frustration for many providers. Especially with constantly changing regulations and codes, it often becomes difficult for many to keep a track of and thus leading to errors and delays. This is why today providers are looking for steps that can reduce authorization complications.
Though the authorization process can’t be completely removed here are a few steps that can minimize your ambulatory prior auth burdens:
- Verify all your information and data upfront - with a phone call to the payer or electronic verification through a healthcare clearinghouse, verifying patient information and data are extremely vital and shouldn’t be skipped. This is because it avoids delays in the pre authorization process. Starting from verifying codes and all should be correctly confirmed.
- Quick turnaround time - ensuring a quick turnaround for the physician’s operative report is always beneficial. A quick turnaround time reduces your waiting period and ensures a faster authorization approval.
- Checks and rechecks - Before submitting the claim, one should ensure double check on every piece of information and all codes describing the billed treatment and procedures. Matching the codes in the authorization process helps in avoiding errors.
- Outsourcing from authorization expert – it is seen that the timelines for requesting prior authorization can be quite short as 72 hours which in-house resources find difficult to manage. Specially juggling in-between working and taking care of patients they delay the process and often miss out on information as well. Thus an expert team handling it all can be quite beneficial.
Sunknowledge - a prior authorization expert for your ambulatory prior authorization:
Taking care of all your complex ambulatory pre auth processes, Sunknowledge for the last 15 + years has been delivering outstanding support to all. Ensuring the right checks and balance and securing a 99.9 % accuracy rate while managing information, codes and all, we lessen your authorization delay by 99 %. Offering you the highest productivity metrics at a cost effective rate, Sunknowledge today is the ultimate destination for many. In fact, with 100 % authorization submission on the same day, Sunknowledge is the only RCM destination with faster authorization approval.
Helping you stay ahead of changing payer rules related to preauthorizations and providing you more time to focus on patient care, Sunknowledge streamlining your authorization process will help you level the playing field in the game of medical billing and collections. So stop stressing and partner with Sunknowledge Services Inc., for a better ambulatory surgery prior authorization solution.
