Denial management is often confused with Rejection Management. Rejected Claims are claims that have not made it to the payer’s adjudication system on account of errors. The billers must correct and resubmit these claims. Denied Claims, on the other hand, are claims that a payer has adjudicated and denied the payment.

Healthcare organizations should be concerned about both rejected claims and denied claims. The claims rejection management process provides an understanding of the claim’s issues and an opportunity to correct the problems. Denied Claims represent lost revenue or delayed revenue (if the claim gets paid after appeals).

To successfully appeal denied claims, the billers must perform a root-cause analysis, take actions to correct the identifies issues, and file an appeal with the payer. To thrive, a healthcare organization must continuously address the front-end processes’ problems to prevent denials from recurring in the future.