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What we are researching and building: the public data behind medical-claim denials, what payers pay, and how clinic billing actually plays out.
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Market ResearchThe Payer Denial Playbook
Who denies the most, for what, and how often it gets overturned. A tour of the public claims data (CMS, KFF, AMA, CA DMHC) behind medical-claim denials and appeals.
Jahanzaib MalikAug 25, 20269 min read
Read the playbookExplainer
How a claim denial becomes an appeal
A plain walkthrough of the path from a denial code to a corrected claim or appeal letter, and why so few of those letters ever get written.
Zarak ShahAug 28, 20264 min read
Data
What the Texas Medicaid open-data release actually contains
The DOGE/HHS T-MSIS release put years of provider-level Medicaid claims data in the open. Here is what is in it, and what it can (and cannot) tell you about clinic billing.
Zarak ShahAug 27, 20265 min read