Dr. William L.

We treat severe asthmatics, Primary Immune Immunodeficiency and a rare genetic disorder, HAE. All of the medications for these patients require hours of prior authorization work. I have a full time physician assistant who spends 40-50% of her time addressing these. Beyond these requests we now are required to spend time preapproving commonly prescribed and inexpensive medications for almost every patient we see. We are also seeing prior authorization requests on common procedures which does not allow us to complete needed treatment at the time of the visit. This nonsensical waste of time has got to stop!

– Dr. William L., State

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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?

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