prior authorization
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A requirement by a health insurance companies that patients obtain approval before receiving certain medical services, procedures, or medications.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "“I once had to do a prior auth for United for a glass bottle,” a medical resident wrote. “The compounded intranasal midazolam was covered, but the glass bottle it came in was not.”"
Usage
- American usage
Inflected Forms
prior auth (alternative, informal)