Need help doing my part for a health policy paper. My part is:
– Evidenced-based literature review and documents 10% (Natalie)
- Use evidenced-based documents, journals, legislation as the data sources for your paper.
Base it on this:
Health Policy Concern
Prior authorization (PA) is a process that requires healthcare providers to obtain approval from health insurance companies before they can prescribe specific medication, treatment, or diagnostic tests for their patients. The purpose of PA is to prevent unnecessary medical spending and ensure the treatment and medication ordered for patients are clinically needed. In the real clinical setting PA, delays care, worsens patient outcomes, and has created provider burnout across all specialities and practice settings. For Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) in Florida this burden directly delays chronic disease management, medicine regimen, and diverts clinical time away from direct patient care. The purpose of this paper is to address PA as a critical health policy concern and argues that its process is no longer acceptable and requires a systemic reform. The way PA is currently set up it is not protecting patients but failing them.
A survey in 2024 of 1,000 physicians conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) found that providers complete an average of 39 PA requests every week, spending approximately 13 hours on administrative tasks that have nothing to do with treating patients (AMA, 2024). ..
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