Cloud-based software services provider athenahealth has released its 2014 PayerView Report, which leverages the company's data to provide insight into provider-payer relationships and ranks healthcare payers based on various metrics.
Denial rate is one of those metrics. According to the report, here are the 10 payers with the lowest percentages of claims requiring backend rework.
1. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon — 2.9 percent
2. Premera Blue Cross of Washington — 3.1 percent
3. HealthPartners — 3.1 percent
4. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island — 3.2 percent
5. Healthsource (a Cigna subsidiary) — 3.4 percent
6. Medicare Part B of Oregon — 3.4 percent
7. Capital BlueCross of Pennsylvania — 3.5 percent
8. US Family Health Plan — 3.5 percent
9. Medicare Part B of Arkansas — 3.6 percent
10. Tufts Health Plan — 3.6 percent
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