Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

CERT Report Pushes Prior Auth

Only DME rivals the home health error rate. The “Medicare Fee-for-Service 2015 Improper Payment Report” that Medicare, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and others have been citing for months is officially out. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services posted the report based on Comprehensive Error Rate Testing reviews, which holds the infamous 59 percent error rate for home health [...]
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