Denial prevention playbook
10 top causes of denials (and how to fix them)
If you work in denial prevention, you live and die by codes. But by the time you get to a
CARC or RARC, a denial has already happened — and overturning denials is expensive.
54%
of denials are eventually overturned
but only after a costly appeals process
but only after a costly appeals process
$19.7 billion
is spent by providers annually
trying to overturn denials
trying to overturn denials
Spending that amount of time and money is not sustainable — and it’s why we created this resource.
Get a proven denial prevention playbook
Discover where denials originate most often and unlock step-by-step instructions to leverage advanced automation and AI to defeat denials.
What’s inside
Identify and overcome the 10 most common causes of denials. For each, this playbook provides:
- 1 A description of each denial
- 2 Potential causes
- 3 How to resolve it
- 4 Steps to prevent it
- 5 Ways to apply advanced automation + AI

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