I work at a urology practice. When I started here the only procedures requiring prior authorizations were surgeries. Now medications, radiology, and in-office procedures require prior authorization or you do not get paid. Often new prior authorization requirements are buried deep within some emailed network bulletin. Insurers are famous for changing prior authorization requirements. They just started requiring us to request prior authorizations on all chemo medications injected or infused through a portal. The questions are often confusing and time consuming even to the physicians. We have had patients that have had to put off certain treatments because it takes so long to get a prior authorization back or the hoops we have to jump through are increasingly tedious.

– Robin S., Georgia
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Have you ever gone to the pharmacy to fill a prescription only to be told that your insurance company requires approval before they'll cover your treatment? Have you ever waited for days, weeks or months for a test or medical procedure to be scheduled because you needed authorization from an insurer? Or are you a physician frustrated with the administrative headaches and their impact on your patients?

Please tell us know how prior authorization has impacted you. We are looking for stories from patients and physicians to highlight and draw attention to this issue that is impacting the health of so many Americans.

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