Benchmark of the Week: Top 10 most denied codes, 2008 vs. 2009
This chart examines the change in denial rates for 10 high-utilization services between 2008 and 2009, based on the latest CMS claims data from 2009. NOTE: Codes billed fewer than 1 million times annually were excluded from analysis. NOTE: To ensure a wide range of specialties were represented, several high-denial, high-utilization physical therapy codes were excluded, despite having higher denial rates than some of the codes shown.
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