Becker's Healthcare November 22, 2024
The ASC market will likely see significant growth into the next several years, but many ASC leaders and physicians continue to feel tied down by arduous administrative burdens.
Prior authorization
According to Medscape’s “‘They’re Awful and Impede Patient Care’: Medscape Physicians and Prior Authorizations Report 2024,” 86% of physicians feel that the time they spend processing prior authorization requests or appealing denials has led to delays in patient care. Another 61% said that patients frequently abandoned recommended treatments due to prior authorization delays.
“It’s meant to be a financial tool to help offset costs of care for a person, but it’s not,” Rory Murphy, MD, a neurosurgeon with Barrow Brain and Spine group in Phoenix, told Becker’s. “It...
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