DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 6 (June)

Benchmark of the Week: Does billing a code more often reduce denials?

Summary: Different specialties often see certain types of services dominate their billing, such as primary care with E/M codes and radiology with imaging tests. This trend is supported in most cases by the data, though there are a few mild discrepancies where greater utilization doesn't result in particularly low denial rate and vice versa, where specialties with low or moderate utilization don't have very high denial rates.

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