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Pursue Cert As Early As Possible, CMS Instructs

Published on Fri May 15, 2015

Securing certification prior to billing may not cut it under new guidance. You’ve got a few more clues to compliance with face-to-face physician encounter rules. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a revised version of the transmittal updating Medicare Benefit Policy Manual provisions relating to F2F. Old way: “The certification must be complete prior to when an [...]
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