Denial Analysis Reporting
This Report provides high-level reporting based on the CARC Management Setup. You can identify and categorize meaningful denials by setting up CARC Denial Rules.
Data Type
- Date of Service
- Post Date
- Billed Date
Top Denials
To show only the Top Denials on the Report, select the number of Top Denials to display on the report output.
- All (default), 5, 10, 25, 50, or 100
User
Audit the Denials by who completed the Encounter or who manually entered the Charges on the Encounter.
- Select the User from the dropdown menu or enter the User ID and select.
Preventable/Non-Preventable
On the report, Preventable and Non-Preventable CARC Code Denials are in their own sections.
- You have the Options to Include, Exclude or Only report the Preventable denials.
- The CARC codes are set up as Preventable in the CARC Management Rules.
Primary CARC
The Primary option is selected on the CARC in CARC Management Library.
- A Primary CARC is the CARC with the highest adjudication.
- A Non-Primary CARC will be considered as the Primary when it is the only CARC being adjudicated.
- If there are only Non-Primary CARCs, the CARC with the highest adjudication will be considered as the Primary.
- Options:
- Include (default): Include all CARCs that are considered as Primary.
- Exclude: Exclude all CARCs that are considered as Primary.
- Only: Show only CARCS that are considered as Primary.
Multiple Denials
When a Procedure line has multiple denial lines, select how the denials should display. This report will only show Denials within the time frame you have selected.
- Include All (default): All lines will display.
- Highest Adjudicated Only: Only count 1 denial line per Procedure line.
- This is determined by the greatest denial value.
- All other lines will be removed from the report.
- Highest Adjudicated Only (Sum Totals): Only count 1 denial line per Procedure line.
- The Denial Amount is the sum of the Procedure with the highest value and the other lines that were removed.
This filter will only display the denials within the time frame selected.
Subsequent Denials
The same Procedure line on the same Encounter with multiple denials occurring on Remits with different dates.
Example: A Line Item was denied on a Claim, and a Corrected Claim was resubmitted to the Payer, who denied it again.
- Include (default): All subsequent lines will display.
- Exclude: All lines after the first denial will be removed from the report.
- Only (Include Original Denial): Only display Encounters that have Subsequent Denials.
- This includes lines that qualify as Subsequent, including the original line.
- Only (Exclude Original Denial): All Subsequent Denials will be reported, but the Original Denial will not be included.
This filter will only display the denials within the time frame selected.
Posted, Posted as Note, and Not Posted
The
Denial Date is determined by the Posted status of the Denial.
- If the Denial is posted, the Denial Date is the Posted Date.
- If the Denial is not posted, the Denial Date is the ERA Loaded Date.
On each of these fields, there are options to Include, Exclude or Posted Only.
Category
You can select a Category for reporting purposes.
- All
- CE: Charge Entry
- CM: Contract Management
- CS: Claims Submission
- DC: Documentation & Coding
- R: Registration
- UM: Utilization Management
Report as RARC
Select to Include, Exclude, or Only show the codes that were designated in the CARC Denial Rules to use RARC instead of CARC.
Processed As
Designate how the Denial was Processed.
- All
- Primary
- Primary Forwarded
- Secondary
- Secondary Forwarded
- Tertiary
- Denial
- Reversal
Balance
- Insurance or Patient: Either one or both have a balance.
- Insurance: Insurance Balance only.
- Patient: Patient Balance only.
Group By and Subgroup By
- Facility
- Facility Group
- Insurance
- Insurance Group
- Billing
- Billing Group
- Rendering
- Rendering Group
- Procedure
- Procedure Group
- CARC
- RARC
- Category
- Encounter Completed by User
Sort By
- Denial Count
- Denial Amount
Totals Only
Display CARC Description
- Check to display the full CARC Description.
Page Break on Section
- Check to page break Preventable between Non-Preventable.
Send to Charge Worklist
Select a Worklist from the drop-down to send the results of the report to a Worklist for follow-up.
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