Denial-Induced Forgetting: False Denials Undermine Memory, But External Denials Undermine Belief

Appealing Medicare denials.

Because of the government's recent emphasis on controlling health care costs, health care providers have been receiving many more denials for payment of services rendered to Medicare beneficiaries than in the past. Often the denials are not justified and should be appealed. This article explains the step-by-step procedure in the Medicare appeals process and gives suggestions for presenting a ca...

16. Coaching, truth induction, and young maltreated children’s false allegations and false denials

Denials leak information: Simulatable auditing

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Imagine a data set consisting of private information about individuals. The online query auditing problem is: given a sequence of queries that have already been posed about the data, their corresponding answers and given a new query, deny the answer if privacy can be breached or give the true answer otherwise. We investigate the fundamental problem that que...

The cure for claims denials.

G reimbursed for the services you provide should be fairly straightforward: provide a service, submit a claim, and receive payment. It sounds simple enough, but a lot can go wrong in this process, from coding and data entry errors made by your practice to complex coding edits made by your payers. The American Medical Association’s most recent National Health Insurer Report Card found that the m...

Coaching, truth induction, and young maltreated children's false allegations and false denials.

This study examined the effects of coaching (encouragement and rehearsal of false reports) and truth induction (a child-friendly version of the oath or general reassurance about the consequences of disclosure) on 4- to 7-year-old maltreated children's reports (N = 198). Children were questioned using free recall, repeated yes-no questions, and highly suggestive suppositional questions. Coaching...