• Dr Dipak Nandi: Best Practices to Managing Your Prior Authorization Process

    It is true that managing prior authorization has been a serious challenge for practices. However, many are still unaware of its impacts and how detrimental can it be in increasing the in house costs.

    The biggest disadvantage in managing prior authorizations is the involvements of the staffs both clerical and nursing in the entire process.

    Studies clearly suggest that on an average a primary care practice spends on an average 1.1 hours a week on prior authorizations, clerical staffs spend nearly 5.6 hours while the nursing staffs spends on an average 13.1 hours weekly on prior approval and authorization process.

     

    It is quite clear that if you are looking to evolve your practice management standards, it is important for you to assess and find out the process loopholes with a specialized team. Also, it will be a pertinent idea to make use of the technology advantages available in the marketplace that will help you in a seamless transformation to a result driven paperless environment.

     

    Freeing the staffs from tedious paperwork should be a primary responsibility and you must be prepared to make evolutionary changes in your authorization and verification process.

     

    You have to take steps and finding an expert revenue cycle management company specialized in handling your prior authorization should be handy. However, it is critical for you to assess what credibility they will bring on the table and how they will be able to eliminate proven challenge areas in practice management by streamlining the entire pre-certification and authorization process.

     

    Sun Knowledge: Your Prior Authorization Partner

     

    Sun Knowledge has been claims adjudication partners of leading payers of the country. We have developed robust processes, a proprietary online platform “prior auth online” that helps our clients to submit their authorization requests online without any fuss.

    Moreover, there is no bar in the number of requests that you can submit and currently our services are available for as low as $5 per auth. Our unique contribution will be synchronize the entire process of benefits check and authorization that is quick and effective helping you in bettering your denial management in best proportions.

     

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