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advantage claims recovery gro<strong>up</strong><br />

Recover Your Reduced Or Denied<br />

By Steve Berlin<br />

C&S Publishing<br />

Free Money!<br />

If you happen to be one of those<br />

rare individuals who can’t use some<br />

free money, then you might want to<br />

skip over to the next article. But for<br />

the 99.999 percent of us who can<br />

always find some good use for extra<br />

cash, then you need to take a hard<br />

look at the amazing services offered<br />

by Advantage Claim Recovery Gro<strong>up</strong><br />

(ACRG), an endorsed partner of <strong>CCA</strong>.<br />

Advantage Claims Recovery Gro<strong>up</strong><br />

was launched in 1995 by Pamela<br />

Davis, a Registered Nurse. She was<br />

working in the insurance cost containment<br />

industry and quickly recognized<br />

the need by medical and health<br />

care professionals to recover denied,<br />

uncollected and disputed workers’<br />

compensation claims. After a little<br />

research, she discovered that more<br />

than 40 percent of all claims were<br />

being denied.<br />

found that doctors are just too busy<br />

to spend a lot of time on paperwork.<br />

They want to treat their patients.”<br />

So the company evolved to provide<br />

that specialized services doctors<br />

need—making sure that everything<br />

is fully and properly billed, and everything<br />

the doctor is owed for the<br />

services provided is paid by the insurance<br />

company.<br />

“We recover lost revenue,” Pamela<br />

said succulently.<br />

Statistics show that less than 50 per-<br />

She tried to find a quality service to<br />

research the denied claims and file<br />

corrected paperwork to recover this<br />

lost money, but was not able to find<br />

one that met her high standards. So,<br />

in typical American fashion, she started<br />

her own company.<br />

“When I started the company I wanted<br />

to teach and train doctors to get<br />

their billing right,” she said. “But I<br />

Fre<br />

Mone<br />

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