We were proud to have our 2025 benchmark data featured in Fierce Healthcare in the article Payer Audits, Denial Amounts Rise Again in 2025, Vendor Data Show. The piece, written by Dave Muoio, draws on real-world data from MDaudit’s network of more than 1.2 million providers and 4,500 facilities, documenting a 30% year-over-year increase in total at-risk amounts from external payer audits, average denied amounts of $5,390 in outpatient and $565 in inpatient hospital settings, an 84% rise in telehealth-related denials, and a 70% increase in average denied amounts tied to requests for information and medical necessity. CEO Ritesh Ramesh is also quoted directly, making the case that reactively addressing denials after the fact is no longer a viable operating model.
The Fierce Healthcare feature brings our data to one of the most widely read audiences in healthcare finance and revenue cycle management, and it lands at a moment when payer denial pressure is showing up as a line item in health system earnings calls across the country. The numbers tell a clear story: the auditing environment has fundamentally shifted, and organizations that are not investing in proactive revenue integrity strategies are absorbing losses they do not have to. It is the challenge MDaudit was built to solve.
