tci Part B Insider - 2009 Issue 18

APPEALS :Add Up How Many Low-Dollar Denials You Write Off and Determine Whether to Pursue Payment

The answers may surprise you -- and addressing the appeals may add to your bottom line. If your practices rule of thumb is to write off all denials worth under $10.00 or another low dollar amount, it may be time to add up those claims and determine just how much money you could be pocketing through claims corrections and appeals. To calculate this amount, your practice could create a special writeoff -- TCTA (too costly to appeal) -- to isolate those items that may have been appealable, but you wrote them off anyway, to find out how many...

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