DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 10 (October)

5 ways to stop losing money over denials on low-level E/Ms

You and your peers lost more than $610 million in 2009 thanks to unusually high denials on the two lowest-level E/M visits commonly billed by physicians, new CMS data reveals. Established visit codes 99211 ($19.54) and 99212 ($39.84) suffered denial rates of 9.7% and 6.3% respectively in 2009, according to the latest CMS claims data.

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