McKesson Corporation today announced the launch of InterQual Connect™, a cloud-based medical review service with authorization connectivity for payers and providers. InterQual Connect works with the same care management systems and InterQual Criteria they already use, making it fast, easy, and cost-effective to implement and deploy.
Today the total cost of an authorization is between $35 and $100 when faxes, denials, appeals, and other aspects are considered, according to McKesson research. Fully 13 hours of nursing time per physician per week is spent on pre-authorization, and 13% of physicians (and their patients!) wait over a week for an authorization, according to a Health Affairs study.
