As we continue along the revenue cycle journey, it's now your last chance to prevent a denial before you submit your claim for payment. Understanding how the clearinghouse works and how it fits into the claims process helps ensure your claim isn’t rejected later by insurance payers. A claims clearinghouse acts as an intermediary between your practice and third-party payers. The 837 file you generated during claims submission gets uploaded to a computer platform and the clearinghouse performs its own series of edits. After this review, the clearinghouse forwards your claims information to insurance payers. Hear how ambulatory healthcare professionals successfully implemented RCM solutions and claims processing software. Clearinghouse edits present a last opportunity to ensure the integrity of a claim before it gets to the payer—and prevent a denial. If the clearinghouse finds a problem with your claim, they will reject it. Although a rejection from a clearinghouse doesn’t have the same impact as a denial from an insurance payer, these rejections should be minimized. To reduce clearinghouse rejections, be conscientious about scrubbing claims and correcting errors in charges—especially errors that repeat themselves.