A denied claim doesn't just cost you the reimbursement. It costs you the staff time to figure out why it was denied, the time to correct it, the time to resubmit it, and then the wait for a second decision that might land on you again. Multiply that by even a modest denial rate, and you're looking at one of the biggest silent drains on an independent practice's revenue. Industry surveys put the average initial denial rate somewhere between 10% and 15% of submitted claims, and
