Becker's Healthcare November 1, 2024
Physicians are feeling increasingly burdened by prior authorization requirements, according to Medscape’s 2024 “‘They’re Awful and Impede Patient Care’: Medscape Physicians and Prior Authorizations Report 2024.“
The survey collected responses from 1,073 physicians between March 1 and May 26, 2024.
Here are nine key takeaways from the survey:
1. Physicians are spending more time on prior authorizations. Approximately 2 in 3 physicians said that they spent slightly more time (39%) or much more time (27%) on prior authorizations now than they did three years ago. Around 80% of physicians in the survey also said that medical staff are spending more or much more time on prior authorizations than they were three years ago.
2. Physicians think that the...