Author name: Natasha Schlinkert

Prior authorization has become one of the most painful blockers in healthcare revenue cycle operations. It’s the work that looks invisible on a spreadsheet, no one’s measuring it until it’s broken, but it’s costing you thousands of hours and millions of dollars in delayed reimbursement. The frustrating part? It’s not a new problem. Your practice

Prior authorization used to be simple. A clinician needed approval. Your staff called the payer, got it, and moved on. But healthcare’s complexity exploded, payer requirements multiplied, and what was once a 10-minute phone call became a 15-minute data-entry marathon—multiplied by thousands of requests every month. If you’re a revenue cycle director, CFO, or operations