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Don't Submit Claims Before OASIS Data, OIG Report Stresses

Published on Fri Apr 04, 2014

Sixty-five percent of claims reviewed by OIG flunk OASIS edit. Do you think you’d have no trouble getting paid by Medicare if CMS institutes tougher edits checking OASIS data? You may need to think again. In October 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implemented edits crosschecking inpatient rehab facility claims against their submitted assessment data (see Eli’s HCW, [...]
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