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Making prior authorizations less burdensome
Author(s)Avery Hurt, Logan Lutton
There’s no doubt prior authorizations are a major time suck. Here are five ways to make them a little less onerous.
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Pre-authorizations are never going to be fun, but if you make these few small tweaks they might not create quite so many headaches.
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