A study of payers found wide variations in denial rates and days to pay. Denials can also be caused by technical errors, such as incomplete information or misspelling a name, which accounted for about half of initial denials according to a 2015 analysis.
Research on payers showed significant differences in the rate at which claims were denied and the time it took to process them. Technical errors, like missing data or misspelled names, were responsible for about half of the initial denials, as per a 2015 study.