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MAC Targets Therapy Usage In Medical Review

Be prepared to defend low clinical, functional domain scores. Wondering what will land you on medical reviewers’ radar screens? If your MAC is Palmetto GBA, now you know.   The Medicare Administrative Contractor lists 13 active medical review topics on its website — one more topic than it reported last quarter. Eleven of the 13 topics feature HIPPS codes indicating [...]
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