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Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery denials: what the review data shows
Independent reviewers have decided 12 published cases where an insurer denied Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery — and they overturned the insurer 41.7% of the time. A denial for Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery is a starting position, not a final answer.
Published decisions
12
2001–2026
Overturned
41.7%
5 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 Fusion Surgerywhen 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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