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APA 2025: 57% of psychologists call payer admin a barrier to taking insurance. AI scribes give back about 17 minutes a week against 13 hours of prior auth.
Insurers report an 11% prior authorization cut, 6.5 million fewer, one year in. Behavioral health still has no start date, and the count is insurers' own.
Illinois' downcoding law takes effect January 1, 2028 and excludes self-funded plans covering 67% of covered workers. The quieter Illinois law already helps.
A company most patients have never heard of makes coverage decisions for about 100 million insured Americans — 1 in 3 people with insurance — across 100+ insurers.
79% of physicians say prior authorization can push patients to abandon treatment. In mental health, the paperwork isn't a side effect of coverage. It's the point.