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These E/M Coding Errors Could be Tripping Up Your Claims

Published on Fri Dec 27, 2013

CMS finds 14.0 percent improper E/M payment rate. If the 2012 Medicare Fee-for-Service improper payment rate is applicable to your practice, your practice might end up with collections going down by 8.5 percent. CMS’s new Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results, which were released on Sept. 9, show that practices actually made fewer errors in 2012 than in the previous [...]
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