Clock a Prior-Authorisation Decision — Free
Paste the dates your authorisation has been waiting, and read the days elapsed against the turnaround your plan states.
The proof surface
Authorisation delays are usually scheduling problems, not clinical ones. A dated contact log with the plan's own turnaround beside it is what gets a case escalated.
Why the flat version breaks
Undated phone calls
Calls with no date and no reference number cannot be escalated; the plan's own log is the only record that survives.
Waiting quietly
Turnaround deadlines exist to be measured, and a case that is nineteen days old with a seven-day standard is a different conversation.
Sending information twice
Repeated requests for the same notes usually mean the file has been split; quoting the reference number with the second copy closes it.
How to work the auth docket
Date, method, who you spoke to and the reference number, one per line.
Your plan's own figure, used as the rule the docket measures against.
Contacts are numbered with dates; the deadline is stamped with days over or remaining.
Send the dated log and ask for expedited review, naming the elapsed days and the reference.
What the docket replaces
| Question | Before | On the docket |
|---|---|---|
| How long has this taken | count backwards from memory | dated entries with elapsed days |
| Am I past the deadline | ask the representative again | deadline stamped with days over |
| What to escalate with | a frustrated phone call | the dated log with a reference number |
The docket organises your own contacts; it does not know your plan's rules, and it never contacts the insurer.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the auth docket: your contact log and reference numbers stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a clerk's docket sheet
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 9 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The docket and the day count are free. The paid layer prints the escalation letter with the dated contact list attached.
Open the prior-auth clock docket companionBoundary
This auth docket works only on the contact dates and plan statements you paste you paste. It does not give medical advice, does not decide whether a treatment is covered, and does not contact the insurer for you. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with your clinician's office and the plan's member services, then a patient advocate before you rely on it.
What this is built on
- Every figure comes from the contact dates and plan statements you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
- Method: elapsed days are counted from your first submission date; the deadline is that date plus the turnaround you supply
- Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.
Before: the reader kept calling. After: they can see nineteen days elapsed against a seven-day turnaround, with every call dated.