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Claim denials and appeal letters

AI claim denial management and appeal letter drafting

Denied claims are sorted by reason and value, the fix or appeal is prepared with evidence from the record, and billing staff approve every submission.

01 today

The problem

Denials arrive as codes on remittance files that someone has to decode. Many are fixable, such as a missing modifier or authorisation number, but the team only has time for the largest ones. The rest are written off, and the same mistakes repeat.

02 the run

What the AI does

  1. Step 1: Reads remittance and denial files and groups denials by reason, payer and amount.
  2. Step 2: Separates simple fixes, such as missing data, from denials that need an appeal.
  3. Step 3: Prepares corrected claims, or drafts appeal letters citing the payer's policy and the evidence in the record.
  4. Step 4: Queues the work by value and deadline so the biggest and most urgent go first.
  5. Step 5: Reports the top denial causes each month so the front end can fix them at source.

paused: waiting for a person to approve

03 human in the loop

Where a person approves

Billing staff approve every corrected claim and appeal before it is sent. Clinical arguments in appeals are checked by a clinician or clinical reviewer.

04 after

What changes

More denials are worked before deadlines pass, and recoverable revenue is not written off by default. The same denial reasons stop repeating because their causes are fixed.

Case studyWorking every denied claim before the deadline passesThe rollout, what to measure, a worked example and the research behind it.

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