DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 4 (April)

Benchmark of the Week: Variance in denial rates of top codes, 2006-2008

Summary: Allergy and oncology services have seen some of the greatest percent growth in denial rates from 2006 to 2008, while psychiatry codes are among the services on the opposite end of the spectrum. NOTE: This chart measures the percent change in the denial rate - itself measured by a percent figure - of the highest-utilization codes from 2006 to 2008. Services billed less than 1 million times annually to Medicare were excluded from analysis, as were all pathology and laboratory test codes.

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