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Industry Note:

PECOS Records Found Lacking.

Published on Fri Jun 07, 2013

Home care providers are still waiting to hear when Medicare will turn on its so-called PECOS edits, which will check for a referring/ordering physician’s record in PECOS. But one problem may be that the PECOS information isn’t so reliable. The OIG recently reviewed provider enrollment files and found that many of them were wildly inaccurate, while others were incomplete. The [...]
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