The staff also tries to go the extra mile for patients when they run into problems getting
insurance authorization for medications and tests.
Fees: Initial
insurance authorization fee: 1,500 [pounds sterling].
For example, a level-four office visit may generate $80 in costs--also known as practice expenses--in the form of medical records management, obtaining
insurance authorization, billing patients, and office coordination.
For example, we found surgical practices in which nearly two full time equivalent positions per surgeon were needed to obtain
insurance authorizations. The
insurance authorization practice function is expected to be a significant expense only in practices with a large proportion of elective procedures and managed care payers.
