DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 11 (November)

NPP Benchmark: Denials for top-billed NP and PA codes, 2008-2009

The top two non-physician practitioner (NPP) specialties have similar denial rates for the services they bill most frequently, an NPP Report analysis shows. Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) had almost the same average denial rate for their top codes in 2008, but while NPs lowered their denial rate in 2009, PAs saw their average denial rate increase.

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