Payment integrity
Appeal analyzer
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Appeal
What the provider is actually contesting
The determination separated three questions and numbered them. This takes what came back and sorts each argument to the section it contests, so a reviewer opens the appeal already knowing which questions are in issue — and which were never answered at all.
This is a lexicon, not a model.
Each argument is scored against the three sections by the terms it shares
with them, weighted so a word that appears under every question counts for
nothing. Measured against appeals it had not been tuned on, it puts about
three arguments in four on the right section. That is why
every argument below is shown whichever way it routed, why the evidence
behind each route is on screen, and why an argument it cannot place says so
instead of picking the nearest one. A misroute costs a reviewer a glance,
not a decision.
The appeal
What this does not do
- It does not decide the appeal, overturn a finding or record a disposition.
- It does not move an amount. The exposure figures are hypotheticals, computed from the letter's own dependency between sections.
- It does not judge whether an argument is correct — only which question it is answering, and whether it brought what that question asked for.
- It does not hide an argument it could not place.