DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 9 (September)

Benchmark of the Week: E/M denials by level and state, 2008

Low-level E/M codes are denied much more often than level 3 E/M codes, years of CMS claims data have shown. High-level E/M codes are a mixed bag; level 4 codes are denied as often as level 3 codes, on average, but level 5 codes are denied more often than both. How do these E/M denials break down by state and geographic region?

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