According to the results of an American Medical Association survey, more than 90% of physicians surveyed stated prior authorization has a significant or somewhat negative clinical impact on patient care. Twenty-eight percent responded that prior authorization “led to a serious adverse event such...
"In some measure it's a reflection of the dysfunction of the agency, because I don't think they are stonewalling us on some specific requests. They may just not have documentation of stuff that you would expect a government agency that's running hospitals to have at its fingertips."