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Your PA team isn't slow. The system is fragmented. Most of the time logged against a prior authorization isn't time spent thinking about the clinical case. It's time spent moving information between systems that were never built to talk to each other. The clinical detail lives in the EHR. The payer criteria live in a separate portal. The medical necessity documentation lives in a third system. The patient's coverage data lives in a fourth. The copay program for the drug, if there is one, lives in a fifth. For a single PA, that's a manageable inconvenience. For a queue of dozens per week per coordinator, it's the bulk of the job. People who trained for clinical or operational expertise spend most of their hours doing handoffs between vendors that don't share a workflow. When the queue grows, the natural conclusion looks like a team capacity problem. Hire more PA staff. Outsource the function. Push escalations to a vendor that handles overflow. Each of those responses treats the symptom — too much work — without changing the structure that's producing it. The structure producing it is the fragmentation. Three vendors, four phone numbers, two portals, a fax line that still occasionally matters, and a reconciliation step at the end of the week that nobody really has time for. The team isn't underperforming. The team is the integration layer between systems that were each built without the others in mind. When the PA, the affordability program, the enrollment, and the fill confirmation live inside one workflow — on one record, surfaced inside the EHR the clinician was already in — the integration layer goes away. The team's time stops being spent moving data between five places. The same staff handle more PAs without working harder, because the per-PA labor drops. The team didn't break the workflow. The workflow was never connected. Close the gap inside your EHR. Zero cost to your team. Live in three weeks → https://bit.ly/4eZ18RG #PatientAccess #HealthSystem #PriorAuth #ClinicalOperations #EHRWorkflow #CareCoordination #SpecialtyPharmacy