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One denied claim costs you twice. 💸First, the payer rejects it and your payment stalls. Then your team spends roughly $2...
10/14/2026

One denied claim costs you twice. 💸

First, the payer rejects it and your payment stalls. Then your team spends roughly $25 reworking, correcting, and resubmitting it. Multiply that across a month of claims, and the leak adds up fast: staff hours, delayed cash flow, and revenue that sometimes never comes back.

Most denials aren’t complicated. They come from missed eligibility checks, coding or modifier errors, and clearinghouse rejections nobody caught in time.

At HNA Business Group MD, we stop them before they start:

→ Verify eligibility before the visit
→ Scrub codes & modifiers before submission
→ Work clearinghouse rejections daily

The result is a 99% first-pass clean claim rate. The industry target is 95%. We don’t settle there.

That’s why 800+ practices across 20+ specialties trust HNA with their revenue cycle, with $0 setup fees and no long-term contracts.

Clean claims mean faster payments, fewer write-offs, and a team that spends its time on patients instead of rework. 🏥

Want to see where your claims are slipping? Start with a free billing audit. 🔍

📅 Schedule your free demo → hnabusinessgroupmd.com/schedule-demo

👶 One well-child visit can support up to 5 billable codes. Most pediatric practices bill two.That gap is revenue you’ve ...
10/12/2026

👶 One well-child visit can support up to 5 billable codes. Most pediatric practices bill two.

That gap is revenue you’ve already earned and never collected.

Here’s where pediatric billing usually leaks:

💉 90460 + 90461: Vaccine counseling is billed per component, not per shot. Miss the add-on code and every combination vaccine is underpaid.
🧠 96110: Developmental screenings happen in the exam room but never make it onto the claim.
🩺 Modifier 25: A sick concern handled during a checkup is a separate E/M service. Without Modifier 25, it gets denied or never billed.

At HNA Business Group MD, we review every pediatric encounter so each service your providers perform is coded, billed, and paid correctly.

800+ practices across 20+ specialties have trusted us with their revenue cycle since 2020. $0 setup. No long-term contracts. 30-day notice.

Start with a free pediatric billing audit and see exactly what your claims are missing.

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Auth approved for April 15. Patient reschedules to April 28. Auth expired April 20.The service was approved. The patient...
10/01/2026

Auth approved for April 15. Patient reschedules to April 28. Auth expired April 20.

The service was approved. The patient was covered. The practice did everything right. And the claim pays zero.

Expired authorization denials are the most frustrating category in billing, because nothing clinical went wrong. A date moved.

Here's what most practices don't realize changed this year.

As of January 1, 2026, CMS-0057-F requires Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA marketplace plans to decide standard prior auth requests within 7 calendar days — down from 14 — and expedited requests within 72 hours. Every denial must now come with a specific, actionable reason.

That matters enormously here. If you catch an expiring auth before the rescheduled visit, you can often get a new one back within a week. Catching it after means chasing a retroactive request, which CMS-0057-F doesn't regulate at all and most payers routinely refuse.

One more thing worth knowing: for Medicare Advantage, an approved authorization is valid for the full course of treatment, and plans can't reopen it mid-course. Some "expired auth" denials on MA claims are simply wrong — and appealable.

HNA tracks every auth with expiry alerts built in. Renewed before expiration. Billed with the correct auth number. Always.

How many auths expired in your practice this month? DM us "AUTH."

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The patient came in for a rash. You also drained an abscess. You billed both. The payer paid one.Same-day E/M plus proce...
09/30/2026

The patient came in for a rash. You also drained an abscess. You billed both. The payer paid one.

Same-day E/M plus procedure is one of the most misunderstood areas in billing — and it cuts both ways.

When you lose money: the visit genuinely involved separate work — a different complaint, its own history, exam, and decision-making — but modifier 25 wasn't appended. The payer assumes the visit was part of the procedure and bundles it. That E/M is gone, and it was legitimately yours.

When you create risk: modifier 25 gets appended by default to every procedure visit. That's a different problem. OIG analysis found roughly 35% of Medicare claims with modifier 25 didn't meet requirements, and it's been an OIG Work Plan target year after year. Anthem, Cigna, and UHC all run automated modifier 25 reviews.

The rule that settles it: a planned, scheduled procedure has no separately billable E/M. If the patient came in for the thing you did, there's no second service to bill.

And this is about to get more expensive. CMS has proposed paying the highest-valued code at 100% and the second at 50% when an E/M with modifier 25 is billed alongside a procedure. The final rule lands in November — and commercial payers historically follow.

HNA applies modifier 25 based on what the documentation actually supports. Payer-specific rules built into the workflow.

DM us "SAMEDAY."

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Your new provider worked a full eight weeks. Saw 240 patients. Generated zero dollars.This is the most expensive mistake...
09/29/2026

Your new provider worked a full eight weeks. Saw 240 patients. Generated zero dollars.

This is the most expensive mistake a growing practice makes, and it's entirely avoidable.

Here's the timeline nobody plans for. In 2026, commercial payer credentialing runs 90 to 150 days. Medicare takes 60 to 90 through PECOS. Medicaid ranges from 30 to 180+ depending on the state. But the new provider's start date was set by HR, not by the payer.

Every encounter in that gap is a denial.

And the backup plan most practices assume exists? It doesn't:

Retroactive billing is narrow. Medicare allows up to 30 days before the effective date — and the effective date is the later of your filing date or the first date of service. File late, and those months are simply gone.
Most commercial payers don't backdate at all. A few will set the effective date to your submission date, but only if you submitted before the provider's first patient.
Billing under another provider's NPI is not a workaround. Incident-to and locum tenens have narrow, specific requirements, and none of them cover a new hire waiting on credentialing.

One provider, 30 patients a week, 8-week gap, $150 average — $36,000 gone.

HNA starts credentialing before your provider's first day. Full CAQH setup, payer enrollment, status tracking. Zero billing gaps.

Hiring? DM us "CRED."

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The patient handed your front desk two insurance cards. Whichever one got entered first became "primary." That guess jus...
09/28/2026

The patient handed your front desk two insurance cards. Whichever one got entered first became "primary." That guess just cost you 60 days.

Coordination of benefits denials — CO-22 on your remit — don't happen because of bad coding. They happen because of bad information. The claim was clean. It just went to the wrong payer first.

And the rules are genuinely complicated:

🔹 Medicare isn't automatically primary. It depends on whether the patient is still actively working and how large the employer is — not their age.
🔹 For children covered by both parents, the birthday rule decides.
🔹 Medicaid is always last.
🔹 A patient who retired last month just flipped their entire COB order, and nobody told you.

Here's what makes this denial type worth fixing first: roughly 70% of COB denials get paid once corrected and resubmitted. The money is fully recoverable. But 65% of denials overall are never reworked at all — so it sits in AR, ages past 90 days, and quietly becomes a write-off.

Sometimes the practice did everything right and the payer simply has a stale COB record on file. That one can't be fixed by billing harder — it takes a call.

HNA verifies COB order at every eligibility check, before the encounter. Primary billed first. Secondary billed with the primary EOB attached. Every time. ✅

Do you know the COB order for every dual-insured patient? DM us "COB."

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⚠️ You examined the patient. You made the call. You documented it. Then a payer's reviewer, who never saw them, decided ...
09/23/2026

⚠️ You examined the patient. You made the call. You documented it. Then a payer's reviewer, who never saw them, decided it wasn't necessary.

Medical necessity denials are the single most appealed denial type in the country — and here's what makes them different from every other denial: they're usually winnable.

Federal audit data shows payers overturn the majority of their own medical necessity denials once a real appeal is filed. Analysis of ACA marketplace appeals has found overturn rates north of 80%. The money isn't gone. It's just waiting for someone to fight for it.

So why does so much of it vanish? Two reasons. 📋

First, documentation. The coding can be perfectly correct and still get denied if the note doesn't connect the diagnosis to the service in the way the payer's policy requires. Medicare has LCDs and NCDs. Commercial plans have their own clinical policies. They are not the same, and they change.

Second, the clock. Appeal windows vary wildly — Original Medicare allows 120 days, Medicare Advantage often just 60, most ACA commercial plans at least 180. Miss the one printed on your denial letter and the claim is finished.

HNA matches every diagnosis to payer-specific coverage policy before billing. Denials that slip through get appealed with clinical documentation — fast. ✅

Hit with necessity denials this month? DM us "DENIED."

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🧩 You did the work. You documented it. The payer paid for less than you performed.Bundling is where payers apply automat...
09/22/2026

🧩 You did the work. You documented it. The payer paid for less than you performed.

Bundling is where payers apply automated edits that collapse multiple CPT codes into one payment. Some bundles are legitimate. Many aren't. The problem is that most practices can't tell the difference, so they either lose money they earned or appeal things they shouldn't.

Here's where real revenue gets left behind:

🔹 Two different joints injected in the same visit. The second injection needs modifier 59 or XS plus laterality. Without it, the edit collapses both into one payment.

🔹 A separate problem addressed during a procedure visit. The E/M is payable, but only with modifier 25 and documentation showing genuinely separate work.

🔹 Ultrasound-guided injections billed as unguided. When guidance is documented with a saved image, the correct code is 20611, which pays roughly $80–$110 more at Medicare rates than 20610. Practices with incomplete imaging documentation default to the lower code every time.

And the flip side matters just as much: slapping modifier 59 on everything to "beat" the edit is one of the fastest ways to trigger an audit. 💸

HNA's certified coders apply the right modifier, on the right line, with the right documentation, before the claim ever goes out. We know every edit. We code correctly. 800+ practices, 99% first-pass rate. ✅

Is your practice leaving money in payer bundles? DM us "CODES."

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Your payer is paying you LESS than you billed — and sending an EOB that makes it look completely correct. 👀You bill 9921...
09/21/2026

Your payer is paying you LESS than you billed — and sending an EOB that makes it look completely correct. 👀

You bill 99215. They pay 99213.

2026 Medicare rates:
99215 → $192.39
99213 → $95.19
Gap → ~$97 per visit 💸

The claim isn't denied. It's "paid." So it never hits a denial queue, never gets worked, never gets appealed.

Silent. Automatic. Every visit.

HNA audits every EOB against your submitted codes. Downcodes get appealed. Every dollar accounted for.

When did you last audit your EOBs?
DM "AUDIT" 👇
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🧮 Grab a calculator. This takes 30 seconds and it will change how you look at your billing.Equation 1: Your monthly bill...
09/18/2026

🧮 Grab a calculator. This takes 30 seconds and it will change how you look at your billing.

Equation 1: Your monthly billed × 20% = what's leaking out.

Bill $50,000/month? That's $10,000 gone. $120,000 a year.
Bill $200,000/month? That's $40,000 gone. $480,000 a year.

Now, is 20% real? Here's what the data says. A survey by Sage Growth Partners and Fibroblast found more than 40% of healthcare organizations lose 10% or more of annual revenue to leakage — and 19% lose over 20%. Research published in JAMA puts the cost of billing mistakes as high as 15–20% of possible income. 📉

It's never one big loss. It's denials nobody reworked — 60–65% never get appealed. It's AR that quietly crossed 90 days. It's underpayments that posted as "paid" and never got audited. Individually small. Collectively, a fifth of your practice.

Equation 2: Same billing + HNA = 99% of collectible revenue captured.

That's the gap. Not more patients, not higher fees — just the money you already earned actually arriving.

Run the numbers on your own practice. Then let us audit them for free. $0 setup, 99% first-pass clean claim rate, 800+ practices, 20+ specialties. ✅

📅 Schedule your free demo → hnabusinessgroupmd.com/schedule-demo

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