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Health insurance companies use prior authorization processes to lower payer costs.
The problem is that prior authorizations (PAs) interfere with the patient-physician relationship; delay or prevent access to treatments already covered by an insurance plan for which the patient has paid; and create a significant administrative burden for physicians. According to the AMA, physicians complete an average of 41 PAs per week, consuming 13 hours of staff time.
One way that refractive