Obtaining pre-authorizations without delay is essential to both preventing unnecessary delays in care and ensuring accurate reimbursement for services provided. But there are multiple challenges to administering an efficient, effective pre-authorization program, including: • Recruiting and retaining staff who have both clinical and revenue cycle expertise • Dedicating resources to stay up to date on complex, evolving guidelines and payer-specific requirements, and to manage payer responses • Lack of a consistent, technology-enabled workflow An Efficient Solution: Our Authorization Management Services staff manages pre-certification and authorization needs for inpatient and outpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services. We also provide comprehensive concurrent or retrospective inpatient authorizations after admission. Our solution includes: • Authorization Experience and Expertise – Our services are provided by clinicians (nurses or allied health depending on client need) who have specialized education in authorization requirements and commercial screening tools. Our team members average more than five years of clinical and authorization experience, stay up to date with training and compliance, and are dedicated to helping ensure that no part of your authorization request slips through the cracks. • A Centralized and Streamlined Technology Process – Our team leverages a centralized system to accelerate payer response, with processes that are efficient and repeatable. We incorporate robotic-process automation to assist with account statuses and system updates. • Thorough Authorization Clinical Review – Our team reviews each medical record, focusing on payer-specific requirements and obtaining authorization for services scheduled or rendered. We stay abreast of changes to Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payer guidelines. • A Focus on Reducing Authorization-Related Denials – We take a holistic approach to authorization, which includes working auth-related denials. We review denied admissions, days, and services, and complete all necessary steps for reconsideration and appeal requests. Our denial workflow is customized so that we can pair expertise to the type of denial; for example, leveraging technical versus clinical staff depending on the reason for denial. • Detailed Performance Reporting – We provide detailed performance reporting that includes a month-over-month view of account activity including: √ current status √ completion percentages √ approval percentages

Change Healthcare is inspiring a better healthcare system. We are a leading independent healthcare company that provides data and analytics-driven solutions to improve clinical, financial and patient engagement outcomes in the U.S. healthcare system. Our comprehensive suite of software, analytics, technology-enabled services and network solutions take costs out of the healthcare system by driving improved results in the complex workflows of payers and providers by enhancing clinical decision-making and simplifying billing, collection and payment processes, and enabling a better patient experience. We are creating a stronger and more efficient healthcare system that enables better patient care, choice, and outcomes at scale.

VALER is a cloud-based **Enterprise Authorization Platform** that streamlines and automates today's manual authorization workflows. VALER provides **ONE place to SUBMIT and VERIFY authorizations across all payors and all services types** (professional, facility, ancillary, medications, etc). VALER is the only solution that manages authorization submissions for both payor **FAX** and **web portal** based workflows. VALER provides enterprise-wide visibility on **real-time authorization status** and documentation to eliminate duplicate work and support the revenue cycle.

VALER provides comprehensive coverage of **all payor authorization workflows (fax, phone, web portals) ** and rapidly updates new or changing authorization requirements.

VALER serves as a **single point of integration** and maintains changing requirements for all payor authorization workflows across fax, phone, and web portals.

VALER flexibly integrates with EHRs and practice management systems to reduce manual data entry and scanning of documents

VALER streamlines and automates today's highly manual **AUTHORIZATION SUBMISSION** and **VERIFICATION** workflows with proven results of 45% reduction in staff time and 11% improvement in staff productivity.

VALER covers **all service types** including professional, facility, technical, medications, and DME authorization workflows
VALER provides **real-time data** on authorization processing times, staff productivity, payor behaviors/turnaround time to optimize prior authorization workflows VALER allows for **coordination and collaboration across the enterprise** to reduce duplicate work and errors between ambulatory clinics, facility admitting/scheduling, and the revenue cycle teams.   

VALER promotes **clean claims** by **standardizing** and **streamlining** authorization submission by injecting **payer rules** in the workflow to reduce costly denials