Denials Prevention

Build your own denials prevention engine.

Prevention Begins with Knowledge


The necessary denials prevention checklist

If you are seeking true change in your revenue this year, you’ll want to commit to a modern technology platform that can assist your journey. A modern platform built with the top issues of today's RCM landscape (not designed forever ago) is less of a disruption than you might think - especially the way it can increase your current revenue overall. To help you pick the right partner, your software should include the following:

Comprehensive Data Integration

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837s (claims sent to payer)

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835s (remits sent to practice)

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Historical claims data

AI-Powered Pattern Recognition

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Compare hundreds of millions of historical claims and remits

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Identify billing and submission errors automatically

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Group similar denials by root cause

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Surface actionable insights on an easy-to-digest dashboard

Billed vs Paid Comparison of . . .

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Diagnosis code changes

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Modifier additions or changes

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Diagnosis pointer corrections

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Documentation requirements

Prevention Impact

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Decreased initial denial rate

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Increased clean claim rate / first-pass acceptance

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Accelerated cash flow

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Decreased cost to collect

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Improved denial recovery rate


From Reactive to Proactive: The Cultural Shift

Building a better denials prevention engine isn't just about technology—it's about transforming your revenue cycle culture from reactive to proactive.

Reactive mindset: "Denials are inevitable. We'll deal with them when they come."

Proactive mindset: "We can identify and eliminate denial patterns before they cost us time and money."

This shift requires:

 

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Leadership buy-in and resource allocation

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Investment in the right tech and training

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Cross-functional collaboration

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Commitment to continuous improvement

The question isn't whether you can afford to invest in denials prevention: It's whether you can 
afford not to. 

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The Bottom Line

For practices operating on thin margins, preventable denials represent a massive 
opportunity. Rather than accepting denials as an inevitable part of revenue cycle management, a sophisticated prevention engine allows you to:

  • Learn from your successful resolutions systematically
  • Identify and eliminate denial patterns at their source
  • Build billing edits that catch errors before submission
  • Train your team with concrete, data-driven insights
  • Accelerate cash flow by avoiding the deny-fix-resubmit cycle
  • Reduce the burden on your appeals team
  • Capture more of the revenue you've earned

 

The practices that thrive in today's challenging reimbursement environment aren't those with the best appeals teams—they're the ones that prevent denials from happening in the first place. With the right prevention engine, powered by AI and built on a foundation of comprehensive claims data, your orthopedic practice can shift from chasing denied dollars to proactively protecting your revenue.

And with Rivet, you can prevent denials now.

How practices prevent denials through Rivet

Rivet Revenue Diagnostics does more than denials prevention

Rivet Revenue Diagnostics does more than build a denials prevention engine. Gain a confident picture of your financial health in real-time with customized analytics, reports and net revenue projection dashboards. Explore the financial impact of your underpayments and denials, removing future denials with our robust AI powered denials prevention engine.  

Where other software stops, we begin. Optimize your KPI management now.

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FAQ

How does Rivet improve denials management?

Rivet addresses denials in two ways: prevention and resolution. Rivet Prevent stops denials before they happen by using AI to analyze your historical claims data. It compares denied claims with their corrected, paid versions to identify exactly what went wrong—whether it's a missing modifier, incorrect location code, or other billing issue. The system surfaces these patterns on an easy-to-use dashboard, allowing your team to build billing edits and process improvements based on real evidence from your own claims. On average, customers achieve a 20% year-over-year reduction in denial rates. Claim Resolution streamlines the workflow for denials that do occur. It auto-assigns claims to the right team members, auto-generates appeal forms, and auto-fills payer portals to eliminate manual data entry. The system also provides productivity tracking and organizes denials by pattern so teams can work similar claims in batches. Customers increase recovered denials by 16% and work 15-20% more claims using Rivet. The result: reduced denial rates, accelerated cash flow, lower cost-to-collect, and more time for your team to focus on strategic work rather than rework.


Ready to build your prevention engine?

Explore how advanced analytics and AI-powered prevention tools can transform your revenue cycle from reactive to proactive with Rivet.

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