If the computer says no, let the computer say no.
The unit sits between the decisioning system and the customer. It delivers the decision. It takes the reply back.
01 — Exhibit
The person in the middle
A prior authorization comes back no. Someone still has to open the chart, find the voice, and say it. The computer decided in a moment. The person spends the rest of the hour inside the answer.
No Robot sits in front of that system. It delivers the decision to the customer, takes the reply, and sends the reply back. It does not reopen the decision. The person goes back to the work that is not this.
02 — Exhibit
What the unit does
- TakeThe decision from the decisioning system. The unit does not reopen it.
- DeliverThe decision, and what the customer can do next. A person does not read it aloud.
- ReceiveAdditional information or an exception. It goes back to the decisioning system.
- HoldThe unit does not soften the decision, and it does not pretend the reply changed it.
03 — Exhibit
Specimens
File PA-4418
Prior authorization
- Request
- Outpatient imaging, lumbar
- Rule
- NR-14 · not medically necessary
- Disposition
- NO
The criteria set did not match the indication on the request. A person was not assigned to read this aloud.
File CL-9021
Claim line
- Line
- 7 · professional services
- Allowed
- 0.00
- Disposition
- NO
The line falls outside the contracted bundle. The zero was already in the system before anyone opened the file.
File EX-118
Coverage window
- Request
- Exception, formulary
- Received
- Day 12 of a 10-day window
- Disposition
- NO
The window is a number. The number had passed. The unit does not extend it to spare someone the sentence.
Composed examples. Not determinations. Not anyone's chart.
Unit
NR-0
The decisioning system has already decided. This unit tells the customer, and takes the reply back. The exchange stays in this browser.
04 — Assignment
Hand the unit a decision.
For the institution. Name the organization, the role that currently has to face the customer, and the decision the decisioning system already made. The desk confirms only after the file is accepted. A notice above is not a filing.