Neurology & Pain Management Coding Alert

Compliance:

Use These Tips to Increase Appeal Acceptance

Noting current patterns could head off future denials. Appealing denials is time-consuming and painstaking; but they are a necessary evil, as winning them is an effective way to increase your practice’s bottom line. Background: Denials have been steadily on the rise since 2016. But practices that appeal their denials are successful, on average, approximately 40 to 45 percent of the time. [...]
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