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September 2021

Clarification: Pending authorization requests

In a May Record article, we reported that we would begin pending some authorization requests in June but the effective date subsequently changed to July 25. On that date, we started pending some authorization requests that would usually be auto-approved based on your answers to the questionnaires in the e-referral system. This allows us to validate the answers you provided on the questionnaire.

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