05/05/2026
A cancer patient's treatment was delayed by 11 days. Not because of disease. Because of prior auth.
A practice we work with told us this story last month.
A patient came in. Stage 3. Needed a specific regimen. The oncologist wrote the order in 10 minutes.
Then the waiting started.
11 days of phone calls, faxes, and appeals. 11 days of a scared patient asking "when do we start?"
The drug was eventually approved. But those 11 days? Gone.
This is what RCM actually means in oncology. It's not spreadsheets. It's time - and in cancer, time costs lives.
We built hashtag because we couldn't stop thinking about stories like this.
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