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Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication denials: what the review data shows

Independent reviewers have decided 24 published cases where an insurer denied Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication — and they overturned the insurer 20.8% of the time. A denial for Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication is a starting position, not a final answer.

Published decisions
24
2001–2026
Overturned
20.8%
5 denials reversed

By condition

Published outcomes when Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication was denied for these conditions.
ConditionDecisionsOverturned
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease15
33.3%
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 Transoral Incisionless Fundoplicationwhen 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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