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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Modernizing prior authorization with athenaPayer®

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.