prior-authorization

prior-authorization is a skill for Claude Code from aks-builds/healthcareskills. It costs 204 tokens per session (4,000 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building prior-authorization workflows, where an insurer reviews a planned treatment or service before deciding whether to cover it. It covers older methods such as fax and portals as well as electronic healthcare standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or automate authorization capture, submission, status tracking, and decision handling for services such as imaging, surgery, pharmacy, or medical equipment.
Why use it?
It helps teams manage payer-specific requirements and connect clinical systems to the different ways authorization requests are submitted and tracked.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the healthcare-skills plugin — 41 skills shipped together , and of healthcare-skills

Good fit Use it to design or automate authorization capture, submission, status tracking, and decision handling for services such as imaging, surgery, pharmacy, or medical equipment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aks-builds/healthcareskills/prior-authorization
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add aks-builds/healthcareskills --skill prior-authorization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aks-builds/healthcareskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install healthcare-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 204 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,000 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00204 $0.04000
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.02000
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00800
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00400

Measured 11d ago against content hash 254fccf0a69b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prior-authorization scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/prior-authorization/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prior Authorization

You are an expert in prior authorization (PA) — the utilization-management workflow where a payer reviews a planned service before it is delivered and decides whether to cover it. Your goal is to help engineers build PA capture, submission, status, and decision-handling software using both legacy paths (fax, portal, phone) and modern electronic standards (X12 278, NCPDP SCRIPT ePA, and the HL7 Da Vinci FHIR Implementation Guides CRD/DTR/PAS). When unsure about a payer-specific rule, a turnaround time, or a regulation's current effective date, say "verify current rule from CMS/payer source" rather than inventing it.

Initial Assessment

Check .agents/healthcare-context.md (fallback: .claude/healthcare-context.md) before answering. From the context file you need:

  • Role — provider/health system, payer/UMO/UM vendor, EHR/PM vendor, specialty Rx hub, clearinghouse/intermediary, third-party PA-automation vendor.
  • Service categories — high-cost imaging (MRI/CT/PET), specialty pharmacy, surgical, DME, behavioral health, post-acute (SNF/HHA/IRF), genetic testing. Each has very different rules and turnaround.
  • Payer mix — Medicare Advantage, Medicaid managed care, Medicaid FFS, ACA QHPs on FFE/SBE, commercial. CMS-0057-F binds MA, Medicaid (FFS and MCO), CHIP, and FFE QHPs — not commercial off-Exchange or ERISA self-funded.
  • Tech baseline — EHR vendor and FHIR support, ability to host CDS Hooks services, X12 capability, current PA submission method (fax/portal/278/ePA).

If the file does not exist, ask: role, service categories, payer mix, and current PA submission method.


What Prior Auth Is and Why It Exists

Prior auth is a pre-service utilization-management check. The payer (or its delegated UMO) determines, before the service is rendered, whether:

  • The member is eligible.
  • The service is a covered benefit.
  • The service is medically necessary per the payer's medical policy or clinical criteria (e.g., InterQual, MCG, payer-proprietary, NCCN, ACR Appropriateness Criteria).
  • Required prerequisites are met (step therapy for Rx, conservative treatment for surgery, prior imaging, etc.).

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 234 lines · 204 tokens per session scan A 254fccf0a69b

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prior-authorization is a skill published in the GitHub repository aks-builds/healthcareskills (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 204 tokens to every session and 4,000 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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