VIDEO: Need for prior authorization creates extra hurdles for physicians

In this video, Priya J. Bansal, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI, discusses the challenge of prior authorization and its effect on physicians as part of Healio’s Women in Allergy video corner series.

“We have all of this beautiful innovation, but we’re being challenged at every step,” Bansal, allergist and immunologist at Asthma and Allergy Wellness Center in Saint Charles, Illinois, faculty member at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, and consulting medical editor for Healio’s Women in Allergy, said.

“What they’re showing in a lot of the data is that ... 70% to 80% of these drugs are approved no matter what,” she added. “So, unfortunately, it causes delay of care to the patient, as well as extra burden to the staff.”