@PaulHFlowersJr We've found that no matter how tight the packet is with supporting evidence, they will find a way to determine something is missing. What helps most is not giving up - that's what they're counting on. #claimdenial#priorauth#fixpriorauth
@PaulHFlowersJr Thank you and correct! So many don't know their rights. Some IR's are better than others. Good ones review the entire packet. Unfortunately less professional simply uphold based on the exact same info provided by the payer. We're dealing with the latter #C2C
@FACR_WW13 Really useful. Most people don't know an upheld denial goes to an independent reviewer automatically. People in employer plans have external review rights too, and few ever use them. How often do you see denials overturned at that stage? #MedicareAppeals#ClaimDenials
Facing a Medicare Advantage denial? Free help:
📞 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227)
📞 Your state SHIP (in NY: HIICAP, 1-800-701-0501)
🌐 Center for Medicare Advocacy @CMAorg
🌐 Medicare Rights Center @medicarerights
You don't have to fight it alone.
#MedicareAdvantage
When a Medicare Advantage plan upholds its own denial, the case automatically goes to a federal independent reviewer.
Since May 1, 2026, that's C2C Innovative Solutions.
Deadlines: 72 hours expedited, 30 days standard pre-service.
https://t.co/QLKBC0tExQ
#MedicareAppeals
In 2024, Medicare Advantage insurers fully or partially denied 4.1 million prior authorization requests.
Only 11.5% of those denials were appealed. Of the appeals, 80.7% were fully or partially overturned. (KFF)
https://t.co/DBmhrY4D8M
#MedicareAdvantage#PriorAuth
Pattern #1 in the Medicare Advantage loop: impossible deadlines.
The plan demands medical records same-day or in under 24 hours. Then it denies for "missing information" it never gave time to send.
Full story: https://t.co/fMRz5C61DZ
12/12
If a Medicare Advantage plan did this to you or someone you love: you’re not alone.
Document everything. Call 1-800-MEDICARE, your state insurance regulator, your members of Congress.
Full story: https://t.co/o1Y6uLnsRt
@TheBuffaloNews@WGRZ@news4buffalo@WKBW
1/12
A 67-year-old Western New York man needs spine surgery.
His Medicare Advantage plan denied it. The federal “independent” reviewer denied it. His appeal to a judge, filed Sept 24, still isn’t docketed.
So he canceled the surgery himself. Here’s why 🧵
#MedicareAdvantage
11/12
We’re asking, plainly:
1) Docket and decide the expedited ALJ appeal.
2) Stop pointing patients to an appeal that doesn’t move.
3) Honor care the operating surgeon says is medically necessary.
@UHC@CMSGov@MedicareGov@NYDFS@RepTimKennedy#FixPriorAuth