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#Best of 2017 Prior Authorization
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Actions taken to quantify, cut the burdens of prior authorization

Processing prior-authorization requests is among a medical practice’s top administrative burdens, but steps are being taken to reduce the problem.

Prior Authorization
Social worker speaking with an opioid patient.
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Time to adopt view of opioid-use disorder as chronic disease

Stigmatization and payers’ use of prior authorization can make it harder to deliver evidence-based treatment to the patients who need it.

Behavioral Health
Close-up of a keyboard with a finger pressing a 'pay' key.
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Physicians protected from health plan credit card fees

Three-year advocacy effort pays off as CMS explicitly spells out what payers must do regarding virtual credit card and EFT payments to physicians.

Claims Processing
Doctor works day and night on electronic health records.
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Family doctors spend 86 minutes of “pajama time” with EHRs nightly

A big chunk of the administrative work physicians do on EHRs could be properly delegated to other members of the practice team.

Digital
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Type & click tasks drain half the primary care workday

New research finds that primary care physicians spend more than half of their workday at a computer screen performing data entry and other tasks with EHRs.

Press Releases
Physician with chin in hand looking at a laptop.
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Health care CEOs to peers: Act on burnout, restore medicine’s joy

“More than words are needed” to address improve physician well-being, say some of the nation’s most prominent health care executives.

Physician Health
Clinic worker answers phone while working on computer.
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Oregon clinic redesigns patient registration to save clicks, time

Gathering patient information before the visit saves precious time. Learn how one practice discovered a new process that could save $200,000 a year.

Sustainability
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March 9, 2017: National Advocacy Update

Stronger network-adequacy & fewer prior-auth demands, flexibility in EHR adoption and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Pains of prior authorization create pressure for reform

Payer and physician organizations gather at HIMSS 2017 to discuss ways to address the burdens of prior authorization.

Prior Authorization