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Chart abstraction
How to Abstract Data From Medical Records: The Manual Process, and What Replaces It
Manual chart review takes 30 to 60 minutes or more per complex patient, according to AHIMA. Multiply that across a full caseload, and the person doing the abstraction is the one absorbing that time, one record, one missing field, at a time.
Claim Denials
Oncology Data Abstraction: Fixing the Denial Rate at Intake, Not on Appeal
Oncologists report denial rates of 30 to 40 percent on claims submitted to commercial payers, high enough that some say they hold their breath every time they submit one (Oncology News Central). A separate review of appealed genetic-testing denials from 2019 to 2023 found 46 percent were overturned on independent review, and cancer accounted for 70 percent of that dataset.
Claim Denials
The Denial Rate Nobody Puts on the Board Deck
The molecular diagnostics denial rate sits at roughly 35.3 percent (XiFin) of billed CPT codes, and prior authorization is the single most frequent reason. That number rarely makes it into a board deck, because by the time anyone’s building the deck, it’s already been absorbed into write-offs, rework, and an appeals team’s monthly numbers. This piece is about what that number actually costs, and why the fix belongs at order intake, not in the appeals queue.
Evidence
Latest Evidence
Peer-reviewed research, white papers, and customers telling the story in their own numbers.
Research
Early Reduction in MRI Diffusion Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) Strongly Predicts Long Term Response to ONC201 Therapy in Patients with H3K27M-DMG
Research
Comprehensive genomic profiling refines diagnosis and reveals actionable fusions in myeloid malignancies: A real-world analysis
Research
Decision support for treatment of patients with glioblastoma: A system biology approach enabled by explainable AI
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Coverage of xCures in the press, and announcements straight from us.