Volume Doubled with an Actual
Reduction in Staff
PAHub™ Case Study: Prior Authorization Automation
The Client
A health plan specializing in State Medicaid business with stringent regulatory requirements was using a manual process to address requests for authorizations, accessing multiple systems to gather decision information and to disseminate results across the organization.

Challenge/Business Need
- Complete documentation
- Faster processing (24-hour turn-around)
- Ability to handle new business
- Easier reporting to state agencies
- Share the information across the enterprise
- Support a dispersed work force
Solution Provided
- PAHub™ Prior Authorization solution
- Paperless processing
- Full documentation and audit support
- Integrated faxing service
- Custom reporting support
- Custom work queues
- Web-based software support for dispersed work force
- Enterprise integration to share request status across the organization
Benefits/Results
- Volume doubled with an actual reduction in staff
- Processing speed increased more than 133%
- Paper case documentation eliminated
- State reporting prep time reduced by more than 50%
- 100% compliance with state processing requirement using custom queues
- Customer Service access to request data via their standard system and process
- Staff access the system from multiple locations via the web


