Prior Authorization: The Work Nobody Put on Your Schedule

Prior authorization work has no slot on a primary care schedule. Where the time goes, which parts need your license, and what it does to your pay.

A prior authorization is not a clinical task. It is a clerical task with clinical consequences, and it lands on the person with the least open time in the building.

You already made the decision. You know why the patient needs the medication. Now someone who has never met her needs it in writing, in their format, inside a window you did not set.

None of that was on your schedule this morning, and none of it will be on your schedule tomorrow.

You are not slow at prior authorizations. Nobody set aside time for them.