(US, healthcare) A requirement by a health insurance companies that patients obtain approval before receiving certain medical services, procedures, or medications.
“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.”
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