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Description: A Humana remittance that is loaded with CO-197 and CO-16 lines costs a practice twice: once for the visit, and once for the staff time spent chasing the money. Humana claim denials are rarely arbitrary. They are in five buckets. Coverage that no one checked. Authorisations not matching the claim. Coding edits. Deadlines missed. Data errors prevent a claim from being seen by a human. This guide breaks down each cause, the denial code it usually triggers and the habit that’s stopping it. A2Z Billings does insurance billing for practices in over 45 specialities, and the fixes below are ones a billing team can put in place this week.

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Description: Molina has a separate Medicaid plan in each state it serves, and each plan has its own payer ID, filing window, and definition of a clean claim. And that catches people out. A biller who learns the rules on one Florida contract starts submitting Virginia claims the same way, and rejections stack up for weeks before anyone puts the pieces together. Good Molina Healthcare medical billing begins with one habit: treat each state plan as a separate payer. The A2Z Billings team has 150+ years of combined experience, & the pattern repeats across practices. Money goes out the door through small mismatches in records, not through anything dramatic.

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Description: A therapy session can be clinically appropriate and still generate an unpaid claim. The patient’s coverage may have changed, an authorization may cover different dates, or the claim may identify the wrong rendering provider. Other denials concern whether the documentation supports the treatment billed.

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Description: A patient hands over an Aetna card. The front desk scans it, the screen says "active," and everyone moves on. Ninety days later, the claim comes back denied. The plan carried a high deductible nobody looked at, plus a visit limit nobody read.

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Description: Most billers searching for the BCBS payer ID expect to get a five-digit answer they can copy/paste into a clearinghouse and forget about. What they find is a federation of independent companies, all using the same logo and claims network, but with separate systems, separate contracts, and separate electronic IDs. Send a claim to the wrong one, and nobody will tell you for a day or two. By then, the next batch has gone the same way.

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Description: In response, most practices make more phone calls, file more appeals, and spend more staff hours. It helps a bit. The bigger gain comes earlier, in how the claim is built and how the payment is posted.

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Description: You fixed the claim. You sent it back. And it came back denied again, this time tagged as a duplicate. That's the moment most billing staff start questioning their own sanity. You didn't bill the same service twice. You corrected an error and resubmitted, the way you've done a hundred times before. But the payer's system saw something that looked identical enough to flag, and now the claim is sitting in the same pile it was in three weeks ago, except the clock on your timely filing window has kept running the entire time.

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Description: Compliance Strategies Every Speech-Language Pathology Practice Should Follow

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Description: 10060 CPT code: description, billing guidelines, and reimbursement

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Description: The UHC Modifier Trap: Why Your Claims Are Being Denied

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Description: Mental Health Billing CPT Code 96113: Description, Billing, Reimbursement & 96112 Comparison CPT code 96113

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Description: A2Z Billings is a trusted medical billing and coding company in Michigan that boosts reimbursements, reduces errors, and streamlines revenue cycles.

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Description: Aetna Prior Authorization Denials: What Every Provider Must Know

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