# Prior Authorization Specialist

**Company:** [Alpaca Health](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/alpaca-health)
**Location:** Philippines
**Work mode:** Remote
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 500–1000/mo
**Category:** Business & Finance
**Department:** Other
**Listed:** 2026-05-30

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## Job description

### **📌 About Alpaca Health**

**Alpaca Health enables clinicians to become entrepreneurs, starting in autism care.**

We help clinicians launch and scale their own clinics by providing AI-powered software, payer contracting, and full back-office infrastructure. Our goal is simple: shift power in healthcare away from large consolidated entities and back to clinicians.

We've raised over $14M in funding from early-stage investors like Core Innovation Capital, Adverb Ventures, and South Park Commons, and are building for long-term category leadership. More importantly, we're serving hundreds of patients, while growing 30% MoM.

  

**🎯 Role: Prior Authorizations Specialist**

We are looking to hire a talented ABA Prior Authorizations Specialist to our Intake Team. This role is full-time, remote, and based on North American Hours of 9am- 6pm (EST) Monday to Friday. Your Key Responsibilities will be:

**Drive authorizations**

-   Own the authorization process for complex cases, with deep expertise in TRICARE (including ECHO enrollment and prior auth workflows)
    
-   Manage escalations from our prior authorizations vendor, Silna
    
-   Support the team in chasing down documentation, resolving auth rejections, and navigating payer requirements
    
-   Partner with billing and insurance ops to resolve issues quickly and cleanly
    

**Manage stakeholder communication**

-   Ensure timely, clear communication across all parties: families, BCBAs, referring physicians, and internal teams
    
-   Set and manage expectations with families around timelines, documentation requirements, and next steps
    
-   Step in directly on high-stakes or escalated family situations
    

**Partner with operations to improve the process**

-   Work with the operations team to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities across the intake workflow
    
-   Own process improvements from identification through implementation
    
-   Maintain accurate tracking and reporting across systems
    

**🧠 Who You Are**

-   \[**REQUIRED\]** 5+ years of experience in ABA intake, (a specific focus on Prior Authorizations is highly preferred)
    
-   Direct experience with TRICARE authorizations, including ECHO enrollment and prior auth workflows
    
-   You are highly organized and relentless about follow-through — nothing falls through the cracks on your watch
    
-   You communicate clearly and confidently with everyone from frustrated parents to clinical staff to referring physicians
    
-   You are a problem-solver - you identify the issue and fix it
    
-   You are comfortable with ambiguity and can make good judgment calls in real time
    
-   You hold yourself to a high bar while remaining approachable and supportive
    

**🚀 Why Join**

-   The opportunity to materially impact how quickly families access care
    
-   A role where operational excellence directly translates to patient outcomes
    
-   Participate in a critical function at an early-stage, fast-growing company
    
-   Join a team of rockstar performers who have built and started scaling the fastest growing company in the ABA space

## Other open roles at Alpaca Health

- [Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca-health/board-certified-behavior-analyst-bcba-b08da43c-a399-4904-a8e0-e0c112a19c08) — Columbus, GA
- [Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca-health/registered-behavior-technician-rbt-01853452-2d3b-4678-b58d-a37b97a87ff5) — Phenix City, AL
- [Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca-health/registered-behavior-technician-rbt-de2e6247-2237-47f0-8e69-9a086a0ceb61) — Humble, TX
- [Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca-health/registered-behavior-technician-rbt-7944688e-3876-4c75-8cc4-5bac0bdba9a7) — Harris County, GA
- [Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca-health/registered-behavior-technician-rbt-6e35ec15-502a-45a8-a3d5-31d976c38ab9) — Cataula, GA

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