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Compliance:

Reduce Denials With Thorough Documentation

Published on Thu May 04, 2023

Lack of documentation leading cause of claims headaches. Denials are a part of coding; but for practices in the know, preemptive denial prevention is essential to try and curb denials before they even happen. Denials have been steadily increasing since 2016, says Holly Ridge, BSN, RN, CPC, CPMA, manager of medical necessity and authorization denials for Duke Health in Durham, [...]
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