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General Surgery Coding Alert

Medicare Errors:

Let CERT Findings Focus E/M Claims

Published on Mon Dec 22, 2014

Avoid key documentation mistakes that cost you pay. Imagine if you lost 10 percent of your general surgery practice’s collections — you’d be in big trouble. Well, that’s the error rate CMS found in the latest Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results, and your MAC may come looking for money you still owe them. Possibility: CMS also noted in the [...]
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