RevCycle Intelligence July 25, 2023
Increasingly restrictive health insurer policies, like prior authorization, impact nurses’ and physicians’ abilities to deliver patient care.
Nurses and physicians see health insurer policies as barriers to patient care, according to data from the American Hospital Association (AHA).
Morning Consult conducted three surveys on behalf of AHA between December 2022 and April 2023 that included responses from 1,500 patients, 500 nurses, and 500 physicians.
As health insurance plans increase their administrative requirements, other stakeholders are suffering the consequences. Almost 85 percent of surveyed nurses reported that insurance administrative policies delay patent care, while 74 percent said the policies reduce care quality. Nearly two-thirds of nurses (63 percent) said insurer requirements interfere with transferring patients to the right care setting.
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