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Case Study: Orthopedics Group Cuts MRI Denials by 62%
How a 4-provider orthopedics practice rebuilt its MRI prior authorization workflow and brought first-pass approval from 71% to 94% in one quarter.
January 22, 20264 min readApproveMD Team
A four-provider orthopedics group was losing roughly $18,000 per month to denied or abandoned MRI authorizations. After 90 days on our workflow, denials fell 62% and average turnaround dropped from 6 days to 38 hours.
What changed
- Documentation templates aligned to each payer's MRI criteria.
- Centralized conservative-therapy tracking for every patient.
- Daily follow-up cadence with payer-specific portal automation.
- Peer-to-peer scheduling within 24 hours of any denial.
By the end of Q1 the practice was adding 11 additional billable MRIs per week without hiring.
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