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CLINICALFebruary 24, 2026 · 10 min read

Why Prior Auth is Killing Clinicians — and How We're Fixing It

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Daniel Osei

Head of Product

Why Prior Auth is Killing Clinicians — and How We're Fixing It

Every hour a clinician spends on prior auth is an hour they aren't with a patient. At scale, the math is staggering: the average physician group loses 40 hours per provider per month to prior-auth phone calls, faxes, and portal toggling.

Curee's prior-auth automation reads the medical record, drafts the request, completes the payer's portal, and surfaces the case to a human reviewer only when it actually needs judgment. Most cases close without a human ever touching them.

What surprised us most isn't the time savings — it's that approval rates also went up. Standardized, well-evidenced requests get approved more often than rushed ones. The work being faster is not the same as the work being lower-quality. In this domain, the two can move together.

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