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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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