Difference between revisions of "Prior Authorization"
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| − | '''Prior authorization''' is a process that prevents medical care, with an average turnaround time of eternity.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2015/11/prior-authorization-now-requires-prior-authorization/ Prior Authorization Now Requires Prior Authorization]</ref><ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2017/02/prior-authorization-eternity/ Study: Average Wait Time for Prior Authorization is Eternity]</ref> It is as painful as drinking pure [[GoHEAVILY|capsaicin]]. For that reason, no health care provider ever does it. Official scorecard: insurers 1, health care practitioners 0, patients 0. | + | '''Prior authorization''' is a process that prevents medical care, with an average turnaround time of eternity.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2015/11/prior-authorization-now-requires-prior-authorization/ Prior Authorization Now Requires Prior Authorization]</ref><ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2017/02/prior-authorization-eternity/ Study: Average Wait Time for Prior Authorization is Eternity]</ref> It is as painful as drinking pure [[GoHEAVILY|capsaicin]]. For that reason, no health care provider ever does it. Official scorecard: insurers 1, health care practitioners 0, patients 0. Let us put in this way: not even God Himself can figure out '''prior auth'''.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2017/05/divine-intervention/ God Requires Prior Authorization Before Divine Intervention]</ref> |
Revision as of 17:44, 18 June 2017
Prior authorization is a process that prevents medical care, with an average turnaround time of eternity.[1][2] It is as painful as drinking pure capsaicin. For that reason, no health care provider ever does it. Official scorecard: insurers 1, health care practitioners 0, patients 0. Let us put in this way: not even God Himself can figure out prior auth.[3]
How to Fill Out a Prior Auth Form
- Fill out form
- Fold it into a paper airplane[4]
- Throw it as far as you can
- Quit medicine to become a pilot[5][6]
Related Reading
- Federal Aviation Administration
References
- Jump up ↑ Prior Authorization Now Requires Prior Authorization
- Jump up ↑ Study: Average Wait Time for Prior Authorization is Eternity
- Jump up ↑ God Requires Prior Authorization Before Divine Intervention
- Jump up ↑ Stack of Paperwork Transforms into Fleet of Paper Planes
- Jump up ↑ Radiologist Responds to In-Flight Emergency, Hedges, Asks Pilot to Clinically Correlate
- Jump up ↑ Pilot Consults Medicine, Asks if Plane Cleared for Landing
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