Anna Harris’s Patient Playbook
Prior Authorization
The delay-and-deny machinery, and what to do while you’re stuck in it — plus the collaboration that put numbers to the cost of waiting.
Prior Auth Facts — and what to do in the waiting tent
Her own line — “93% of physicians say prior authorization has delayed necessary patient care. 93%.” — then the four moves: ask if it was filed as urgent, get the tracking number and clinical criteria in writing, request a peer-to-peer, and appeal, because, as she puts it, over 80% of appealed Medicare Advantage denials are overturned.
Prior Authorization for a Specialist Referral
Why healthcare and politics can’t be separated when it comes to system change — and why workarounds aren’t enough without policy.
With Dr. Ibrar — Quantifying the Cost of Delay
A collaboration putting numbers to the daily mortality risk of prior-auth delay, using insurers’ own published data — a research-backed risk calculator.
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