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Prior Authorization Services
Never let complex payer requirements prevent you from prioritizing patient care. Credex Healthcare helps you obtain prior authorization without facing unnecessary bottlenecks through our end-to-end prior authorization solution that integrates directly with your EHRs to secure fast, 100% approvals from both government and private payers. This can help minimize peer-to-peer reviews and prevent revenue leaks from recurring and affecting your financial performance.
Features
What Sets Us Apart
98%
First-Time Approval Rate
2 Hours
Average Turnaround from Receipt to Submission
15,000+
Cleared Prior Authorizations
100%
Compliance Documentation Review Before Every Appeal Submission
Our Story
The Best Prior Authorization Services
While outdated data providers and EHRs are highly dependent on rigid automated loops and challenges in spit back issues, Credex Healthcare’s prior authorization services use a combination of machine intelligence and expert specialists. Through this, we offer intuitive submission portals, medical-necessity criteria, and comprehensive guidance through the shifting policies of more than a thousand insurance companies.
We value the hard work of your clinical staff in prioritizing patient care by handling all the important responsibilities, from initial eligibility screening and document collection to real-time status monitoring and stat escalations. We ensure that your core team focuses on what truly matters in healthcare, while we deal with handling the intricacies of prior authorization.
Our core prior authorization services include:
Foolproof Documentation Scrubbing
We triangulate provider encounter notes, payer medical-necessity criteria, and our documentation standards to prevent recurrent unnecessary reprocessing and RFIs before submission.
EHR-Integrated ePA
We offer an intuitive platform for electronic prior authorization (ePA) which provides a visualization of your native EHR to securely extract required clinical markers without requiring manual data entry.
Ongoing Status Tracking & Escalation
We value your time while you patiently wait for your prior authorization to be approved. Our automated tracking workflow monitors portals every hour, with manual follow-ups triggered if an authorization lapsed beyond the prescribed turnaround period.
Peer-to-Peer Appeal & Support
When a payer requests you to defend the medical necessity of your claim prior to authorization approval, our peer-to-peer support system compiles a defense dossier and schedules a review from our partner physicians to present clinical evidence that will strengthen the sufficiency your request.
STATS
The Numbers Behind Every Approved Authorization
Approved Prior Authorizations
Average Turnaround Time for
First-Appeal Approval Rate with Comprehensive Documentation
Decrease in Authorization-Related Write-Offs
PRIOR AUTHORIZATION SPECIALISTS
Complete Prior Authorization Requirements
Using the comprehensive support of a reliable practice management for prior authorization services significantly reduces the issues related to write-offs and denials. To ensure that every authorization request meets payer requirements before endorsement, we match clinical records against established payer standards and prevent recurring challenges that could delay approval.
Pre-Submission Workflows
Automated intake workflows are established strategically in your EHRs to directly capture your provider's claims. As requests are logged into our tracking system with corresponding details, such as payer information, CPT code assignments, service date, and deadline, we ensure that time-sensitive requests are prioritized accordingly for immediate endorsement.
Clinical Documentation Review
Through the support of our expert specialists, we utilize clinical footprint to ensure that the evidence synthesis of your request is aligned with the insurer standards. The original provider encounter notes, and clinical assessment documentation, among other information, are included in the comprehensive review to provide sufficiency in medical necessity.
Request Deadline Management
We understand that the timeline window for every government and commercial carrier varies. We consolidate these expirations in our deadline management system. When a request lapses, we escalate these requests to secure a formal decision to prevent serious scheduling complications from occurring.
To prevent technicalities from affecting payer compliance, we maintain a repository of submission pathways, documentation standards, and contact protocols from known commercial payers, state Medicaid programs, and regional Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs).
Strategic Insight
Bringing Prior Authorization to the Edge
Outdated EHRs and legacy data providers treat prior authorizations as a standalone administrative requirement just for the sake of compliance. In Credex Healthcare, we focus on the bigger context: gaps associated with authorization are often the leading cause of backend denials, clean claim reprocessing, and dismal financial performance. By optimizing the sluggish intake process, utilizing machine intelligence in analyzing denial patterns, and aligning with established payer protocols, we build a defensive wall that protects the structural integrity of your revenue cycle.
Sustainable Solution for Care Leakage
When authorizations in your practice are faced with delays, patients may resort to cancel their appointments and eventually go to other facilities with better practice management services. We will prevent that from happening by offering rapid clearance turnaround to improve patient retention.
End-to-end Payer Policy Mapping
Payer protocols experience revamps and reforms countless times annually. We compile these standards and update them dynamically to ensure compliance with medical-necessity criteria.
Administrative Burnout Elimination
We help you not resort to phone queues, portal walkthroughs, and recurrent follow-up hold times to our client service representatives through our offline workflows and machine-intelligent solutions that restore productivity hours back to your skeletal staff that provide quality patient care.
Upstream Denial Prevention
We aspire to eliminate reactive measures in addressing denials after care has been rendered by utilizing pre-submission scrubbing to stop rejections from recurring before the claim is endorsed to the payer.
Proactive Clinical Dossier
Even with the efficient support of automated systems, the touch of a specialist to review authorizations is still required. Through our comprehensive clinical dossier, we actively package clinical syntheses with necessary information to build a sufficient appeal that will be approved on first submission.
10+ Years
Prior Authorization Processing Expertise
100%
Payer Coverage Across Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial Programs
99%
HIPAA Compliance Rate Across All Prior Authorization Workflows
Credex Healthcare, Expert Prior Authorization Company
24/7 Support
Dedicated Policy Mapping and Denial Prevention
100%
Customized Prior Authorization Workflows for Every Organization
Specialties We are Offering
Success Tales
What Our Prior Authorization Clients Say
Chief Financial Officer
Clyde
“Before Credex Healthcare, we were swarmed with the sheer volume of RFIs due to negligence in claims submissions. Through Credex, we benefited from its clinical scrubbing process. Our issue with these requests went from plenty to zero. These documentation gaps were eliminated, and back-and-forth payer queries went completely silent after a month or two.”
Practice Manager
Jessie
“Our major concern was requesting authorization for specialty biologics and chemotherapy drugs. Switching to an EHR-integrated workflow has been the best decision we made for our practice. Approved authorization papers are piped right back into our scheduler with ease, and our write-offs have become non-existent within the succeeding quarter.”
Regional Wellness Center
Jelena
“We are constantly facing care leakage because patients keep on rescheduling and fleeing from our center due to authorization delays. I am glad that when we switch to Credex, the 2-hour turnaround time has transformed our patient pipeline dramatically. From having a burned-out front-desk coordinators, we now enjoy a secure scheduling calendar that satisfied our loyal clients even more.”
Practice Administrator
Kimran
“Before subscribing to a practice management service, we endure a 4-hours-a-day ordeal just to deal with payers or rewrite clinical notes. Their service changed how we run things in our practice. From 5 days to under 4 hours, our scheduling turnaround has never run this fast.”
Revenue Cycle Director
Dita
“The authorization for our specialty medications was the leading cause of revenue write-offs in our system. The specialists Credex endorsed to us were experts in significantly improving our first-pass authorization approval rate, which now sits at 99%, while our peer-to-peer escalations now dipped at 70%.”
TIMELINE FOR DELINE MANAGEMENT
From Furnishing Order to Approval: The Process
Step 1
Order Generation
Your clinical provider logs a procedure, diagnostic test, drug order, or any other procedures within your EHR.
Step 2
Automated Extraction
Our integrated platform instantly pulls the respective CPT and ICD-10 code assignments and the required patient profiles and demographics. This ensures that your information is ready for clinical scrubbing.
Step 3
Clinical Scrubbing
An assigned clinical specialist conducts a comprehensive review of the attached clinical history in reference to targeted payer guidelines to confirm that the supporting data from previous extraction is present and sufficient.
Step 4
Submission
The authorization request is transmitted through our dedicated electronic channel or dedicated portal with packaged supporting documentation.
Step 5
Immediate Approval
Our dedicated system retrieves the assigned authorization number, matches the approved data range/units, and reroutes it into your EHR scheduler.
Step 6
Reporting and Prevention
You receive transparent monthly reports which provide details on approval speeds, payer trends, and optimization tips for any outlying pain points to avoid recurrent issues.
Features
Best Prior Authorization and Operational Efficiency
Credex Healthcare provides a platform that blends smart technology through automation with seasoned clinical expertise so your facilities and practices can focus on improving patient care rather than prioritizing payer administrative bottlenecks. We handle the heavy operational burdens you have been facing for years, from initial eligibility verification to preventive appeal monitoring and denial prevention. This protects your revenue stream from recurring issues and scheduling friction that may worsen if left untreated.
Specialty-Specific Guidelines Engine
Our authorization pathways are constantly updated to align with various medical-necessity criteria of more than a thousand insurance programs, which minimizes RFIs and follow-up inquiries from payers.
Dedicated Account Specialists
You are assigned with an optimization expert who intimately works with your practice management, specifically in your medical specialty, clinical operations, and unique payer mix. We treat them as an important extension to your operational arm.
Transparent Denial Reporting
Our system monitors pending, approved, and escalated authorizations in real time. We provide access to comprehensive monthly metrics that outline approval speed, volume trends, and supportive insights that target bottleneck patterns causing issues in approval.
HIPAA-Compliant Operations
All data transfers, EHR interlinking, and clinical documentation synthesis are treated with utmost security, encryption, and highest standards of patient data protection.
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Securing Prior Authorization with Ease
Achieve first-pass approval with your prior authorization, regardless of the complexity of your medical-necessity, specialization, and other metrics involved. Through Credex Healthcare’s EHR-integrated system, we combine the intuitiveness of smart technology with human expertise to deliver a seamless, efficient processing of prior authorization in your practice to ensure that you will not experience write-offs and denials anymore.
Credex Healthcare conducts a free audit of your prior authorization management workflows. This includes optimization practices for your process, mitigation system for RFIs and write-offs, and access points to your EHRs.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What are prior authorization services in medical billing?
Prior authorization services include proactive administrative workflows that secure official approval from a patient’s insurance payer prior to the administration of a specific medical service, procedure, or prescription. Before care is delivered, we ensure that the service is in line with the payer’s specific coverage guidelines and is indeed covered in their benefits. This protects the interests of both the patient and the provider.
Why is prior authorization important for healthcare providers?
Prior authorization safeguards operational and financial health. Without it, healthcare providers are at risk of massive administrative bottlenecks, scheduling delays, care leakage, and irreversible burnout rates among them. It also prevents providers from administering expensive medical care if the insurers will just refuse to pay for them.
How do prior authorization services reduce claim denials?
Lapses in the processing of authorizations make up a majority of backend claim rejections. Credex Healthcare reduces denials through the establishment of a rigorous, front-end scrubbing workflow. By capturing the distinct prior authorization numbers, verifying effective dates, accurately assigning CPT and ICD-10 codes, and integrating these extractions into the claim prior to endorsement, we avoid the costly effects of write-offs and denials.
What information is required for insurance prior authorization?
We are aware of the varying requirements of carriers and specialties, but the common denominators of an authorization dossier are patient demographics, insurance eligibility information, code assignments for services and diagnosis, and clinical justification.
Can automated prior authorization improve reimbursement efficiency?
Yes. Depending on rigid manual workflows delay the authorization process and incur administrative errors. Through an EHR-integrated solution that extracts data with smart automated tracking, we make submission turnaround efficient to an average of just 2 hours.
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