Prior authorization automation for ophthalmology
Give your staff their time back on IPA prior authorizations.
TARA takes the manual data entry out of prior authorizations. Your staff pick the codes; TARA handles the rest.
“We submit over a thousand prior authorizations a month. TARA saves us about half a staff member.”
Office manager, ophthalmology practice, Southern California
15,000+ prior authorizations submitted with TARA to date.
The problem
Every TAR is minutes of manual re-keying.
For a practice that sees a lot of managed-care patients, a large share need a Treatment Authorization Request (TAR) approved before treatment. Today each one is done by hand: a staff member pulls up the patient, finds them on the IPA portal, selects the provider, copies the details into the submission form one field at a time, attaches documentation, reviews it, and submits.
A few minutes each, dozens of times a day, every day. It's exact, repetitive work that pulls trained staff away from patients.
How it works
TARA does the data entry, so your staff don't have to.
Reads today's cases
TARA pulls the patients, codes, and details a TAR needs from your practice management system and EMR.
Assembles each request
It builds every request and presents them together on one screen, ready to check.
Your staff review and confirm
Your team picks the procedure and diagnosis codes for each patient.
Files through your existing portals
TARA submits each request through the same IPA portals your staff already use, and tracks its status.
Systems & security
Your patients' data stays on your own computers.
TARA fits your existing setup and doesn't replace anything. It runs locally on your workstations, with no TARA-hosted cloud holding your patients' records.
A full Data Management & Security Overview is available on request.
Your existing PMS, EMR, and IPA portals; new systems added as needed
On your workstations, not a TARA server
Patient data encrypted at rest on the machine
Every submission is reviewed and confirmed by your team
Business Associate Agreement available to customers
Who it's for
Built for California eye-care practices.
TARA is built for small California ophthalmology and eye-care practices that submit a high volume of prior authorizations through IPA portals.
About
TARA was built by a software engineer with over a decade of experience, including eight years at one of the world's largest technology companies building secure systems that handle personal data, together with an operations lead who handles a busy ophthalmology practice's prior authorizations.
TARA Medical · Founded 2025