If the doc puts mass (potential tumor) insurance won’t deny. Maybe a specialist referral would also help.
Insurance company inappropriate denials for diagnostic testing is pushing the medical community to sometimes practice inappropriate medicine. Anytime I get a denial, my pre-authorization people know request the insurance guidelines for the particular diagnostic test and for the diagnosis. Once you know their guidelines, it’s easy to use their guidelines against them. Many docs are so overwhelmed that they just concede it as a denial and move to plan B.
It pisses me off so much (having an insurance act like they know medicine better than I do) that I spend the time to word the note that totally complies. My denial rate is very low because I don’t like to lose to the villains.
I actually relish the peer to peer calls. I enjoy letting the mercenary insurance doc know that I know their guidelines better than they do.
One of the many reasons that I live in VN past…