Case Study: Commercial Inpatient Denial Overturned Despite One-Day Stay
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A commercial payer denied a one-day inpatient (IP) admission for a teenage patient with sepsis secondary to acute appendicitis, despite evidence of significant illness and operative findings of peritonitis. The denial placed a substantial amount of IP reimbursement at risk. Following the physician-led peer-to-peer (P2P) review, the denial was overturned and appropriate reimbursement
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