Denied Claims Nobody Reworked
Every denial takes staff time to rework. On a busy week, it may not get reworked at all.
Denied doesn’t have to mean done
Contingency-Based Insurance Recovery
Denied. Underpaid. Sitting past 180 days. Hand us the insurance AR your team has already worked without success — we go after the carrier directly until it is resolved.
We don’t just prepare appeal letters. We get on the phone with the carrier, challenge the payment decision, demand reconsideration and reprocessing, and follow through until the claim is resolved.
Keep your existing team or billing company — we’ll take only what is stuck. Or hand us the day-to-day as well: claims submission, payment posting and ongoing AR follow-up.
No recovery, no fee — we are paid a percentage of money we actually get back
What you can count on
25
Years in Dentistry
15
Years in Dental Insurance
48
Hours to a Written Audit Answer
$0
Owed If We Recover Nothing
Claims get denied, underpaid, or simply age out — usually after somebody already tried once to collect them.
Every denial takes staff time to rework. On a busy week, it may not get reworked at all.
Denied doesn’t have to mean done
A payment below your contracted rate is easy to miss on a busy posting day. Unless someone checks each EOB, the shortfall simply gets accepted.
A short payment can repeat on every claim
The longer a claim sits, the harder it is to collect — and filing and appeal deadlines keep running the whole time.
Every month you wait shrinks recovery odds
Every hour your front desk spends chasing insurers is an hour not spent caring for patients. That’s burnout waiting to happen.
Follow-up is the first thing that slips
Don’t write it off yet. A claim that was worked once and abandoned can often still be collected — it needs somebody willing to keep pushing the carrier until it pays.
Get Your Free Recovery AuditWhat we do
Start with the claims nobody could collect, or hand us the day-to-day as well: submitting the claims, posting the payments, and working the AR before it ever ages into a problem. Take one, take both.
Contingency — 20–40% of what we recover, nothing if we recover nothing
We pull the EOB and the chart, find the real reason the claim was denied, and take it to the carrier by phone — escalating past the first-line rep when that is what it takes.
Paid, but paid short. We check each EOB against your contracted rate and pursue the shortfall. Our fee applies only to the additional dollars we get released — never to what the carrier already paid you.
The 90, 180, and 365-day buckets your team stopped opening. We work them claim by claim rather than writing them off, and we tell you honestly which ones are past saving.
When the payment decision is simply wrong, we request reconsideration and push the claim back through for reprocessing — then keep following up until it actually moves.
Claims running up against a filing or appeal deadline get triaged first. These are the hardest to win and the most expensive to lose, so they go to the front of the queue.
When a carrier is paying an outdated schedule, the shortfall repeats on every claim. We prove the discrepancy against your contract and pursue the back balance, not just the next one.
Every recovery ends with a plain answer to why the claim failed — coding, documentation, or payer policy — so your team stops re-creating the same denial next month.
Sleep apnea, TMJ, oral surgery and trauma denied by dental are frequently payable by medical. We re-route those claims to the correct payer and appeal them there.
Flat monthly or per-item — never charged at recovery rates
The day-to-day work that keeps claims from becoming recovery cases in the first place. Take the whole thing, or just the pieces your team is drowning in.
Claims go out clean the first time — correct CDT codes, the attachments that payer actually wants, and the narrative that stops the denial before it happens.
Every insurance and patient payment posted and reconciled against the EOB. Shortfalls get flagged as underpayments the day they land, not eighteen months later during an audit.
Your AR worked on a schedule instead of whenever the front desk finds an hour. Claims get chased at 30 days, not written off at 180 — which is the whole point.
Eligibility, benefits and coverage limits confirmed before the patient sits down, so treatment is planned against what the plan will actually pay.
Enrollment and re-credentialing paperwork, submitted and followed up. A lapsed credential turns a month of perfectly good claims into denials.
A plain-English monthly picture: claims submitted, what got paid, AR by aging bucket, and where the denials are clustering.
Not sure what is recoverable, or which of the day-to-day work you want off your desk? Tell us what is stuck and we’ll tell you — free.
Get Your Free Recovery AuditNo disruption to your practice, no upfront cost, and nothing owed unless money actually comes back. Three steps, and the rate is agreed in writing before we touch a claim.
Tell us what is stuck. Once a BAA is signed, you share your aging AR report and the denials your team has worked over a secure channel. We tell you what is realistically recoverable, what is not, and the exact rate — at no cost.
The form takes about 5 minutes
Calls, escalations, reconsideration and reprocessing requests, formal appeals — then follow-up until the claim is resolved. Not a letter mailed into a void.
We do the chasing
The carrier pays your practice directly. Afterwards we invoice the agreed percentage of what actually landed. Recover nothing, owe nothing.
Timing depends on the carrier, and we tell you up front
Pricing
Two models, kept strictly apart. Claims that already failed to pay are worked on contingency — a percentage of what we get released, and nothing if we get nothing. Day-to-day submissions, posting and AR follow-up are billed flat or per item.
Paid only out of what we recover
Contingency recovery fee
20–40%
of amounts recovered, based on claim age, complexity and volume. The rate for your claims is agreed in writing before we start work — and it never changes mid-engagement.
Older, harder, and already-refused claims cost more to recover, so they carry a higher percentage.
Recent claims, 30–90 days
Straightforward denials and payer errors that simply need to be worked properly.
20–25%
90–180 days, or denied once already
Requires direct carrier intervention — calls, escalation, reconsideration, reprocessing.
30%
180+ days, repeat denials, underpayments
Claims your team has appealed unsuccessfully, or balances already treated as written off.
35–40%
Against a timely-filing or appeal deadline
Exceptionally difficult recoveries where the window is closing. Priced per claim so nobody is guessing.
Case by case
Sending a larger batch of AR at once lowers the rate. We will tell you where your claims land before you commit to anything.
Recovered means the incremental dollars we cause to be paid. It is never your total collections, and never money the carrier had already released before we touched the claim.
Worked example
A $1,000 claim was paid $600 and closed. We challenge the underpayment and the carrier releases another $300. Our fee applies to that $300 only — not to the $600 you already had, and not to the $900 total.
Say you hand us $40,000 of denied and underpaid claims your team has already worked without success, at a 35% rate.
$20,000
recovered from the carriers
$13,000
kept by your practice
$7,000
our fee, invoiced after you are paid
If we recover $0, you owe $0. That is the entire downside.
Ongoing AR & billing
Claims submission, payment posting and ongoing AR follow-up are billed flat or per item — contingency rates never apply to them. Pick the level that matches what you actually want off your desk.
Best for: one job off your desk
$2.30–$11.50
per verification, eligibility to expedited
Best for: submissions, posting & AR handled
3.2%
of insurance collections, $1,280/mo minimum
Best for: no in-house biller at all
3.3%
of insurance collections, $1,320/mo minimum
Every rate above is 5–10% under the published prices of the largest national dental billing services, with no setup fee.
Where the two models meet: if we are already running your submissions and posting, the claims we collect through the normal cycle are covered by the fee above — no contingency on top. Contingency applies only to claims that had already failed to pay, and only to the incremental dollars we get released.
We carry the entire risk of working your worst claims. If nothing comes back, that cost is ours.
Want to know where your claims land? Get your free recovery audit and we’ll quote the rate before you commit.
One specialist with deep dental insurance experience, a signed BAA before any patient data, and pricing you can see before you commit.
Your Dental Recovery Specialist
Desiree has spent 25 years in dentistry, the last 15 on the administrative side with dental insurance as her specialty, doing this work for other companies. Apex Dental Recovery is her own firm: new, small, and built around the work she knows best.
The part she does not hand off: getting on the phone with the carrier and arguing the claim. Challenging a payment decision, demanding reconsideration and reprocessing, escalating past the first-line rep, and staying on it until there is a resolution.
Call or text Desiree: 210-718-9441
We sign a BAA before we see any patient data. It moves only over encrypted channels, and access is limited to what it takes to work your claims.
CDT coding specialist with deep knowledge of dental payer contracts, EOB analysis, and cross-coding (CPT/ICD-10).
A running record of every recovery claim: its stage, carrier contacts and dollars recovered. Ongoing billing clients also get a monthly report.
No minimum term and no cancellation penalty. Either side can end it on 30 days’ notice.
E&O Insured
Professional liability coverage in place before we start work
How contingency recovery works, what it costs, and where we fit alongside your existing team.
Still have questions? Call or text Desiree at 210-718-9441 and talk through your AR before you send us anything.
Tell us roughly what is sitting in denied and underpaid insurance AR. We’ll tell you what is recoverable and quote the rate — free, and with no obligation to use us.
Rather talk first? Call or text Desiree at 210-718-9441.