DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 3 (March)

Benchmark of the Week: Top 12 codes billed and denied by specialty in 2008

You and your peers have seen a mixed payment record on the top codes you billed to Medicare over the last three years. This chart shows the top three high-utilization, high-denial codes billed by the four specialties that bill the most codes overall to Medicare. The percentages above the bars show the denial rate for each code in 2008. Data from 2006 is not shown, but will be used as a point of comparison.

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