AMA: Nearly one in four physicians say prior authorization led to serious adverse events

New survey results from the AMA illustrate the burden of prior authorization, with many physicians reporting that it leads to serious patient harms, delays care, reduces work productivity and more.
“Across the country, physicians see firsthand the dangerous, harmful — and sometimes deadly — consequences of prior authorization,” AMA President Bruce A. Scott, MD, said in a related viewpoint. “Payers erect roadblocks allegedly designed to save money for the health system and protect their resources, but when patients and their doctors face care delays — or when