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Lumbar Spinal Fusion denials: what the review data shows
Independent reviewers have decided 35 published cases where an insurer denied Lumbar Spinal Fusion — and they overturned the insurer 20% of the time. A denial for Lumbar Spinal Fusion is a starting position, not a final answer.
Published decisions
35
2001–2026
Overturned
20%
7 denials reversed
How to use this in your appeal
These are outcomes from California’s external review program — an independent physician panel that binds the insurer. Every state has an equivalent process, and internal appeals succeed even more often. Cite the outcome record for Lumbar Spinal Fusionwhen you appeal: reviewers routinely find that denials like yours didn’t hold up.
SOURCE: CALIFORNIA DMHC INDEPENDENT MEDICAL REVIEW OUTCOMES (CHHS OPEN DATA) · DERIVED AGGREGATE STATISTICS ONLY · METHODOLOGY
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