Understanding IDP with healthcare prior authorization
In this section, we will see how to use AWS AI services to accelerate the healthcare prior authorization process, but before diving deep into AWS AI services, let’s learn about the healthc are prior authorization process.
An introduction to the healthcare prior authorization process
What is “prior authorization?" Prior authorization is a process to receive approval before any healthcare treatments, services, drugs, and so on. Most often, patients or providers request approval from a payer prior to any type of healthcare service so that the cost of it will be covered by the insurance plan. Healthcare insurance companies use the process of prior authorization to check for the right financial responsibility to keep healthcare cost-effective for patients. However, during the prior authorization process, there are many manual transactions of documents, making the process slow, time-consuming, and inefficient...