DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 5 (May)

Benchmark of the Week: Inpatient coding trends by specialty type, 2009

Do specialists, primary care providers or non-physician practitioners (NPPs) see drastically different denial rates and utilization for inpatient Medicare services? This chart addresses this question by analyzing both the utilization and denial rates of inpatient codes, based on the latest available CMS claims data from 2009.

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