Webinar

How OHSU Is Automating Prior Authorization Management for Speed & Simplicity

Learn how OHSU’s patient access team leveraged automation to transform prior authorization workflows.

In this session, attendees will learn how OHSU’s patient access team has leveraged technology to automate their previously manual prior authorization workflows, dramatically improving staff productivity, authorized days out, and claim denial rates from fewer errors.

Exploring more than just OHSU’s success with prior authorization automation, this webinar uncovers exactly how the organization achieved it with centralized, streamlined, and automated workflows. Joe Whipple, Manager of Centralized Managed Care and Price Estimates, highlights how OHSU is setting the industry benchmark for prior authorization management.

Who Can Benefit

  • Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management VPs, Directors, Managers
  • Information Technology VPs and Directors
  • Finance VPs and Directors

What You’ll Learn

  • Common challenges OHSU faced before automating prior authorization, including expensive, complex manual workflows, reduced revenue, and limited performance management
  • How the organization transformed manual workflows to fit unique needs and varied payer mix
  • How to streamline prior authorization workflows with Valer while using Epic as the EHR and how these platforms work together
  • Results OHSU has realized since adopting Valer as its prior authorization solution

Speakers

Dr. Steve Kim

Co-Founder & CEO
Valer

Joe Whipple

Manager of Centralized Managed Care and Price Estimates

With the goal of speed and simplification, OHSU sought a software solution to optimize prior authorization submission workflows organization-wide. By bringing Valer on as a prior auth partner, the team has eliminated manual workflows, created operational efficiency, decreased errors, and eliminated duplicate work – all within a customized workflow and single platform.

OHSU’s collaboration with Valer has resulted in impressive statistics, including:
Valer leads to 11% more staff productivity
11% increase in diagnostic orders
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45% improvement in processing time

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160% improvement in authorization days out