{"id":13622,"date":"2026-06-01T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13622"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:15:00","slug":"the-most-expensive-queue-in-healthcare-isnt-prior-auth-its-the-it-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13622","title":{"rendered":"The Most Expensive Queue in Healthcare Isn\u2019t Prior Auth \u2014 It\u2019s the IT Backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/the-most-expensive-queue-in-healthcare-isnt-prior-auth-its-the-it-backlog\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every month a legitimate workflow improvement sits in queue, the organization pays for the problem twice: once in the inefficiency the change was supposed to fix, and again in the workaround everyone built to get through the week. The backlog doesn\u2019t show up as a line item. It shows up everywhere else.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/the-most-expensive-queue-in-healthcare-isnt-prior-auth-its-the-it-backlog\/\">The Most Expensive Queue in Healthcare Isn\u2019t Prior Auth \u2014 It\u2019s the IT Backlog<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every month a legitimate workflow improvement sits in queue, the organization pays for the problem twice: once in the inefficiency the change was supposed to fix, and again in the workaround everyone built to get through the week. The backlog doesn\u2019t show up as a line item. It shows up everywhere else.\u00a0 The post The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}