Benchmark of the Week: Top high-use, high-denial lab codes, 2008-2009
Effective Mar 10, 2011
Published Mar 14, 2011
These charts examine trends in utilization and denial for laboratory services paid by Medicare from 2008 to 2009. The percent values above the bars refer to the change in denial rates and utilization, respectively, from 2008 to 2009. Denial rates have fallen for most of these high-use services, but they remain extremely high for blood glucose test 82948 and fecal occult blood test 82270, which were billed more than 500,000 and 1.3 million times respectively in 2009.
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