DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2012 Issue 6 (June)

Benchmark of the Week: Upper-level E/M denial rates per specialty, 2010

This chart presents the upper-level denial rates for the 12 specialties that billed E/M visits the most in 2010. These denial rates, based on a Part B News analysis of 2010 Medicare claims data, factored in the total service counts and denied service counts of initial visit codes 99203-99205 combined with subsequent visit codes 99213-99215.

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