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"Long waits for insurance authorization allowing psychiatric patients to be admitted to the hospital from the emergency department waste thousands of hours of physician time, given that most requests for authorization are ultimately granted. A study to be published in the May issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine argues that pre-authorization process is akin to health care &amp;quot;rationing by hassle factor&amp;quot; (&amp;quot;Insurance Prior Authorization Approval Does Not Substantially Lengthen the Emergency Department Length of Stay for Patients with Psychiatric Conditions&amp;quot;)."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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