5 tips to fast appeals on denied claims
Effective Aug 25, 2011
Published Aug 29, 2011
You can’t afford to sit on claims that were denied due to common mistakes such as forgotten modifiers and wrong diagnosis codes. The best practices are aggressive, turning these around the same day by fixing them over the phone or by quickly firing off a redetermination request. "Fix it right away or appeal right away, so you don’t have a situation where you could be making the same mistake on future claims,” urges Maxine Lewis, CPC, president of Medical Coding & Reimbursement Management in Cincinnati.
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