Medical electronic prior authorization
Less friction, built into the order
Automate medical prior authorization within the ordering workflow with athenaPayer® and give your plan a faster, more transparent way to work with providers.
Three reasons to modernize prior auth now
Simpler for providers, faster for members, and easier for your teams to scale.
Help members get care with less friction
Reduce the back-and-forth between your plan and providers and support timely access to the treatments members need.
Connect once. Reach providers across athenaOne®
Gain access to participating athenaOne providers, while practices spend less time on payer portals, phone calls, and faxes.
End-to-end ePA across a 180K+ clinician network
Support the full prior authorization process at the point of ordering, from requirement checks and documentation to electronic submission and your decision.
Join our webinar
Policy Meets Practice: Scaling ePA in a Changing Regulatory Landscape
Join athenahealth and Humana to explore how evolving CMS requirements are shaping medical prior authorization and what implementation looks like in practice.
Case study
Embedding real-time prior authorization into the native EHR workflow
Learn how MedNOW Clinics, Centene, and athenahealth collaborated to replace manual, fragmented prior authorization processes with a standards-based, FHIR-enabled workflow embedded directly in the athenaOne EHR.
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Dig deeper into the value of ePA.
Ready to rethink prior authorization?
Talk with or team about bringing ePA to the athenaOne providers in your network, and what it could mean for your members.