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Avoid These Record Correction Pitfalls, MAC Warns

Published on Fri Sep 06, 2013

Are you committing some of the major record correction no-nos that HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor CGS often sees? "The CGS Medical Review department frequently sees changes in medical record documentation that do not follow the record keeping principles" Medicare sets out in its Medicare Program Integrity Manual, the MAC says in its September newsletter for providers. The most common inappropriate [...]
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