Annual Peak Volume Handled with
70% of Previous Staffing Levels
PAHub™ Case Study: Prior Authorization Automation
The Client
A health plan with both commercial and Medicare business with CMS regulatory requirements is using a semi-automated process to address requests for authorizations, accessing multiple systems to gather decision information and to disseminate results across the organization.

Challenge/Business Need
- Complete process documentation
- Maintain CMS compliance (24/72-hour turn-around)
- Ability to handle new business without adding staff
- Complex Operational reporting
- Dissemination of PA data to enterprise systems
- Support a large but specialized work force
Solution Provided
- PAHub™ Prior Authorization solution
- Enterprise CS system integration
- Full documentation & audit support
- Custom FTP reporting support
- Custom work queues by department
- Peer to Peer Notification capabilities
- Pre-Decision Notification capabilities
Benefits/Results
- Annual peak volume handled with 70% of previous staffing levels
- First year IRR of 199%
- Customer service integrated PA Data enables single access point for answering questions
- Easier compliance with CMS processing requirements using custom queues/alerts
- Enterprise operational reporting able to generate management information using a level of detail not previously available


