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title: Medicare Advantage appeals for SNFs | PayerIndex
description: When an MA plan denies or pays short, PayerIndex builds the appeal from your chart, your contract and Medicare's coverage rules. Get early access.
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MA DENIALS, ADRs & CLAWBACKS

# Stop writing off MA denials.

Post-acute Medicare Advantage appeals are overwhelmingly successful **when filed.**   
Now you can easily generate a fully-cited appeal **in minutes.**

[Get early access](https://www.appeals.care#early-access)[See how it works](https://payer-index-demo.vercel.app/)

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## What PayerIndex does with every denial

### Catch the plan's errors.

Flag & win against their vague reasons, lack of physician reviewer, denial after authorization and much more.

### Answer every reason.

We prepare your point-by-point rebuttals, tied to your chart & the regulations payers must follow. 

### Your clinicians sign off.

 Nothing goes to the payer without your team’s approval.

95%

of MA prior auth SNF denials were overturned when appealed.

18%

But only 18% of denials were even appealed!

*Source: HHS Office of Inspector General, [OEI-09-24-00331](https://oig.hhs.gov/reports/all/2026/medicare-advantage-organizations-overturned-nearly-all-appealed-prior-authorization-denials-for-skilled-nursing-facility-admission-raising-concerns-about-initial-denials/), June 2026.*

## Today, your team must:

- Find the denial on the remit
- Pull the chart
- Look up the contract
- Research the coverage rules
- Write the letter
- Send it before the deadline
- Track it to the next level

## With PayerIndex, just:

### Share the clinical record

### Approve the letter

> “If you hold the plan to Medicare’s own coverage rules, many MA denials don’t stand.
> 
> PayerIndex puts those rules and your evidence in one expertly written appeal.”
> 
> **Maureen McCarthy, Cofounder, PayerIndex**

OUR CO-FOUNDER

### Maureen McCarthy

**RN, BS, RAC-MT, QCP-MT, DNS-MT, RAC-MTA**  
President and CEO, Celtic Consulting · Co-founder, PayerIndex

Maureen has worked as an MDS coordinator, director of nursing, rehab director and Medicare biller. Her Celtic Consulting team writes Medicare Advantage appeals for SNFs, and PayerIndex is built on that playbook.

#### PayerIndex is built on the Medicare Advantage playbook used every day by Celtic Consulting.

## Write appeals that win.

### Get early access!

We're opening PayerIndex to a select group of SNF operators.   
Get hands-on onboarding and locked in founding-customer pricing.

Questions? Email [don@payerindex.com](mailto:don@payerindex.com) or call (605)599-1234

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