Submit prior authorizations on the small, regional portals run by IPAs and delegated medical groups. Ten portals with ten authorizations a month each is the queue nobody staffs for, and it’s the one this workflow is built to absorb.
Step by step
Under delegated-risk arrangements, authorizations go to the IPA or medical group itself, on portals too small to justify a dedicated hire and too different from each other to batch in one person’s head. The volume per portal is low; the context-switching tax is not.
A portal quirk, a rejected submission, or a question the inputs don’t answer escalates to a person with the specific portal and case named.
Small portals fail the classic automation math because the math assumes a human has to relearn each one every time. An agent is scoped to a portal once and then runs it forever, so a portal with ten authorizations a month clears the bar the day it’s built. The long tail is the strongest case for portal automation, not the exception to it.
At scale
Long-tail IPA agents are built per portal on request. The submission discipline behind them runs in production on payer portals and clearinghouse-style portals; see the prior authorization workflow library. The path here is direct: bring your portal list to scoping and prioritize by authorization volume.
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