How would you feel if someone who didn't know, was unfamiliar with your symptoms and story, and had never examined you dictated the way you were treated? Would you be upset if the people making those decisions were not specialists or maybe even had the same training as a physician? Unfortunately, this practice is very common today in every doctor's office in America and it is called prior authorization.

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