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Hone Your Compliance Skills With These Appeals Strategies

Focus on payer advice to direct your actions. You should be glad you can appeal a claim when Medicare issues a denial. Better yet — avoid denials in the first place, or know how to make them count when you must appeal. Look to the following expert tips to get better at avoiding — or winning — appeals. Tip 1: [...]
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