Table 3 Cost of prior authorization requests over a four-week period
Practice | Total EF count | Total time in minutes | Mean time per request (minutes) | Projected annual cost ($) | Mean # request/week | Per FTE Physician | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FTE | Requests/week | Time/week | Cost/week | Cost/year | ||||||
1 | 103 | 972 | 9.4 | 3804 | 25.8 | 4.5 | 5.8 | 54.6 | 18 | $926 |
2 | 49 | 874 | 17.8 | 5020 | 12.3 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 72.8 | 35 | $1,813 |
3 | 63 | 899 | 14.3 | 5112 | 15.8 | 5.0 | 3.2 | 45.0 | 21 | $1,108 |
4 | 51 | 1,231 | 24.1 | 4647 | 12.8 | 3.0 | 4.3 | 102.6 | 32 | $1,678 |
5 | 38 | 582 | 15.3 | 4250 | 9.5 | 1.0 | 9.5 | 145.5 | 89 | $4,604 |
6 | 29 | 375 | 12.9 | 1979 | 7.3 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 31.3 | 14 | $715 |
7 | 21 | 382 | 18.2 | 1968 | 5.3 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 47.8 | 21 | $1,066 |
8 | 32 | 434 | 13.6 | 2540 | 8.0 | 1.5 | 5.3 | 72.3 | 35 | $1,835 |
9 | 49 | 735 | 15.0 | 5278 | 12.3 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 61.3 | 37 | $1,906 |