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Leading academic health system, Western U.S.
REVENUE RECOVERY

How one health system turned its denials backlog into $1.5M recovered

This academic health system saw a 72% improvement in overturn rates and recovered $1.5M across just 54 finalized appeals, all by turning a growing denials crisis into a fast, defensible appeals process without adding headcount.

Health system
Leading academic health system, Western U.S.
Scale
Lean appeals team managing high-volume, complex denials
Solution
SmarterDenials clinical AI
Primary workflows
Complex clinical denials, high-value appeals

Executive summary

As denial volumes climbed and payers moved faster, this health system's appeals team was stuck manually hunting for evidence to fight complex, high-value denials, with write-offs reaching $3.3M and no scalable way to close the gap. Check out the case study to:

  • See how the health system moved from manually drafting appeals to AI-drafted letters grounded in patient-specific clinical evidence
  • Discover how overturn rates improved 72%, climbing from 39% to nearly 67%
  • Learn how the team recovered $1.5M across their first 54 finalized appeals, with revenue per appeal jumping by more than $10K
  • Find out how the appeals team saved up to two hours per letter, freeing clinical expertise for the cases that need it most

What changed operationally

Result methodology and context