Prior authorization shouldn't cost patients their care

Prior authorization has quietly become one of the biggest administrative burdens in American healthcare. Practices tell the same story over and over: an order gets placed, and then someone on staff spends the rest of the day chasing payer rules, assembling documentation, and writing justification letters by hand. The American Medical Association has reported physicians face dozens of prior auths a week and that the process is a leading source of staff burnout. Patients wait. Care gets delayed. Revenue that practices are owed gets written off after a denial nobody had time to appeal.

We started AuthLift because that work is exactly the kind of thing modern AI is good at, and because the tools that existed only automated the plumbing: filling forms, bundling documents, routing submissions. Nobody was automating the hard part, the clinical argument and the administrative precision that actually earns an approval. That gap is our product.

So we built a system where AI is the foundation, not a bolt-on. AuthLift sees the EHR order, checks whether a prior auth is even required for that plan, flags missing evidence before you submit, and drafts a submission-ready justification letter grounded in the payer's own criteria. Your coordinator reviews it, edits if needed, and approves. When a payer says no, AuthLift drafts a targeted appeal. And every outcome, approved or denied, teaches the system what wins, so the letters get better over time.

We are early, and we are building deliberately: HIPAA-aligned from day one, human review on every output, and a bias toward giving practices their time back rather than adding another dashboard to check. If that mission resonates, we would love to have your practice along for the ride.