Industry Note:
Watch For These Claims Adjustments
Published on Fri Mar 10, 2017
Mysterious underpayment corrections may be due to a fix HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA announced last month. The system incorrectly underpaid claims under the CWF edit U539Z, due to the Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) rate not being zeroed out prior to calling Pricer, Palmetto explains on its website. Now that a fix went in on Feb. 6, the MAC [...]