PRIOR AUTHMONITOR

Follow the rules. Understand the workflow. Protect access to care.

Coverage desk

Delegation and Decision Provenance

Source-backed reporting and analysis connected to the companies, capabilities, authorities, and operating domains it affects.

CMS: A CRD check does not start the decision clock

CMS's current Prior Authorization API FAQ says a Coverage Requirements Discovery response can identify whether prior authorization is required and what documentation is needed, but does not itself submit the request or start the payer's decision timeframe. Operators need separate discovery, submission-receipt, information-request, determination, notice, and appeal events.

An MCG review record needs dated clinical-fact and criteria provenance

MCG says CareWebQI gives payer reviewers access to regularly updated care guidelines and a workflow for saving member-specific clinical decision documentation. A saved review remains defensible only when it preserves which clinical facts and guideline version the reviewer actually used at that point in the episode.

An Evolent specialty authorization needs a contract-specific decision-authority record

Evolent presents specialty care-management programs that can combine clinical pathways, prior authorization, provider engagement, peer review, analytics, and value-based models. When a plan delegates review activity, the case record still needs to identify which organization and qualified reviewer held authority for the particular specialty, benefit, member, request, and decision date.

Anterior's reasoning log is not the payer determination

Anterior describes modular AI for clinical workflows, utilization-management tasks, immutable audit and AI reasoning logs, and human-in-the-loop collaboration. Those records can support review, but the payer determination still needs the applicable request, policy, evidence, authorized reviewer, scope, reason, and notice.