Prior Authorization Specialist Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

MedicalBillingHires had 455 open prior authorization specialist listings from 162 employers on November 5, 2026.

117 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 268 in the previous 30 days.

At least 3.7% of prior authorization specialist listings were part-time on November 5, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit prior authorization specialist listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was health insurance, in 52.3% of listings, followed by paid time off (40.2%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all prior authorization specialist listings.

Texas had the most open prior authorization specialist listings on November 5, 2026, with 40 (8.8% of the national total).

Florida followed with 37 (8.1%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with prior authorization specialist openings in Texas.

162 employers had open prior authorization specialist listings on MedicalBillingHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 19.1% of them.

79 employers (48.8%) had exactly one open prior authorization specialist listing.

BLS has no prior authorization occupation. The nearest code, insurance claims and policy processing clerks (SOC 43-9041), is mostly payer-side: insurance carriers and related activities employed 169,090 of its 214,260 payroll jobs in May 2025 (about 79%), against 5,160 in offices of physicians and 2,430 in hospitals (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

In the American Medical Association's 2025 survey, practices reported completing an average of 40 prior authorizations per physician per week, and physicians and their staff spent 13 hours a week on them.

40% of physicians in the AMA's 2025 survey reported having staff who work exclusively on prior authorization.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid prior authorization specialist listing on MedicalBillingHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all prior authorization specialist jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no prior authorization or insurance verification occupation, and the nearest code (insurance claims and policy processing clerks, SOC 43-9041) is mostly insurance-company staff, so this page shows no BLS wage for the role. Demand figures come from the AMA's physician survey, not from BLS.