What percentage of denied claims are never appealed?
Most denied claims are never appealed — industry analyses commonly put it around 60% left unworked, and a large share of those were recoverable. The reason isn't that the denials were wrong; it's that appealing each one by hand costs more time than a small claim returns, so it gets written off.
What actually matters
- Roughly 60% of denied claims are never resubmitted or appealed, by common industry estimates
- A majority of denials are considered recoverable, meaning much of that write-off pile was winnable money
- The gap is economic: manual rework cost per claim exceeds the value of small denials
- Denials also age out of timely-appeal windows while they sit, converting recoverable dollars into permanent losses
- The number that matters for your practice isn't the denial rate — it's the share of denials you actually work
Common questions
Are unappealed denials usually recoverable?
A large share are. Most denials stem from fixable issues — coding, auth, eligibility, or payer error — not from care that was truly non-covered. The write-off pile is mostly money left on the table, not money that was never owed.
Where Volari fits: Volari exists for that unworked 60% — the denied claims you'd otherwise write off because chasing each by hand costs more than the claim returns.
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