Discovering the reason for a hospital claim denial can help healthcare organizations improve revenue cycle performance, according to Susan Eilman, senior healthcare consultant for revenue cycle transformation at Hayes Management Consulting. Ms. Eilman shared the following tip with Becker’s Hospital Review. “Recently I was working with a revenue cycle director who researched root causes for registration and eligibility denials and identified a specific clinic with a denial rate of 42 percent. This director contacted the clinic and asked the clinical director, ‘Why does your location have a denial rate of 42 percent due to registration and eligibility denials when the industry standard is less than 5 percent?’ The clinical director …