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Double Check Your Time Statement before Assigning a Critical Care Code

Published on Mon Mar 21, 2016

Verify your time attestation statement for the best results. Critical care coding is an ever increasing major audit target and these claims tend to receive the closest scrutiny from claims reviewers. And the bad news doesn't end there. Caution: Some payers are going to prepayment audits to make sure the documentation is correct before paying for 99291 (Critical care, evaluation [...]
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