Medical vs. Pharmacy Benefits: How Do They Impact PAs in Delaware?

What this video covers

The video explains how benefit assignment shapes prior authorization work: which portal to use, what documentation each side demands, and how to check benefit placement before submitting. It is for Delaware prescribers, PA coordinators, and office managers who handle specialty medications and keep hitting delays they cannot explain.

• Benefit determines process. PBM portals handle pharmacy-benefit PAs while health plans handle medical-benefit PAs, each with different forms and timelines.
• Check placement first. Verify which benefit covers the drug before submitting, because wrong-benefit submissions get denied or ignored entirely.
• Infusions lean medical. Provider-administered drugs like infusions usually sit under the medical benefit and need clinical notes, not just formulary data.
• Delays cost adherence. Every day a PA sits in the wrong queue is a day the patient goes without the prescribed therapy.

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