Insights
Practical, operator-level guides to working denials at an independent practice — what the reason codes mean, what the vendors actually cost, and what payers are doing right now.
Current
Guides
Pillar guide
Denial management for small medical practices
What working the denials actually involves, the numbers behind the write-offs, and why hospital vendors, denial software, and billing takeover all fit badly.
Pricing
What denial recovery services cost
An honest map of the fee models — contingency, percentage-of-collections, SaaS, hourly — plus the hidden-fee questions to ask any vendor.
Buying guide
Hospital denial-recovery vendors vs. small practices
Why the enterprise recovery machine structurally can't serve a small practice — and what a right-sized alternative looks like.
By specialty
Primary care
Primary care denial management
Death by a thousand small denials: the CARC patterns behind them (CO-16, bundling, duplicates, COB) and how to work them in batches.
Behavioral health
Behavioral health denial management
Auth denials, session caps, documentation requests, and carve-out COB — the codes that hit therapy and psychiatry practices hardest.
Orthopedics
Orthopedic denial management
Prior auth, global-package bundling, modifier denials, and the underpayments hiding inside CO-45 lines on high-dollar claims.
Chiropractic
Chiropractic denial management
Visit limits, maintenance-care denials, and modifier mechanics — and the small-dollar write-off math that quietly drains a chiro practice.
Looking for a specific reason code? See the plain-English denial code library — CO-16, CO-197, CO-29 and the other CARCs costing practices money.
How much is your practice writing off to denials?
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