u/AI_Cosmonaut

When I was younger, I turned the gain all the way up and ran an OD pedal out front. When I was a young man, I became more rational and kept the gain at 2 O'clock or so, mainly playing rock and metal.

These days I play clean, edge of breakup, and occasionally mild overdrive.

People say gain hides mistakes, but I actually find the opposite to be true. Proper muting and feedback become a big issue, in addition to noise. While practicing I find the high gain sound very grating on my ear. I think it's much easier to play with less gain.

I'd much rather use a compressor with mild settings.

Anyone else notice the same?

I’m currently studying medical coding, pivoting from working in software and looking for a change to a more stable industry, and trying to understand the real-world side of denials better.

In coursework, things are usually presented pretty cleanly with things like claim denied, review documentation, decide whether to correct, appeal, resubmit, or write off etc. But from reading posts here, it seems like the real world is a lot messier.....especially when documentation is incomplete, payer rules are unclear, or different people touch the same account.

I've always been a big picture person, and studying coding has left me with burning questions about how it all fits together.

For people who work with denials or coding reviews, I’m curious:

• When a denial is worked, how much of the reasoning usually gets documented somewhere? Ex. Why I choose Appeal vs Write off for a case.
• If someone looks back at that denial months later, can they usually tell why it was handled a certain way? Is that an auditors job?
• Do people ever disagree about whether something should be corrected, appealed, resubmitted, or written off? What happens then?
• If a process changes, like how a certain denial type is handled, how do teams know whether that change actually helped?

I’m not asking about any specific company or system. I’m just trying to understand how this works day to day outside of textbook examples. TY in advance!