35 - Healthcare prior authorization - what are they, and are they harming patients w/ Dr. Steve Kim

On this episode, I am joined by healthcare prior authorization expert and medical doctor Steve Kim. Steve has a passion to streamline the administrative burden for patients and physicians. We talk about what prior authorizations are, why patients should care about something that seems like a mere administrative step, and how you can self advocate.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:58 What are prior authorizations?
04:10 Has this process become unreasonable?
09:27 Why should patients care?
14:03 Steerage away from patient's preferred provider
17:42 Brown bagging
21:24 How did we get to this point?
30:33 Art of Medicine vs. Algorithm of Prior Auth
36:05 Moving review to the "back end"?
42:14 What is the patients role?
46:44 Outro

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