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Preauthorization impacts care: Survey
Policies that require physicians to ask permission from a patient's insurance company before performing a treatment negatively impact patient care, according to survey results.
Policies that require physicians to ask permission from a patient's insurance company before performing a treatment negatively impact patient care, according to results of a survey by the American Medical Association.
The results showed 78% of physicians saying insurers use preauthorization requirements for an unreasonable list of tests, procedures and drugs.
More than one-third (37%) of physicians experience a 1 in 5 rejection rate from insurers on first-time preauthorization requests for tests and procedures, and 57% of physicians experience a 1 in 5 percent rejection rate from insurers on first-time preauthorization requests for drugs.
