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Brush Up On CERT Basics

Published on Fri Mar 31, 2023

With the flurry of audits that have hit home health and hospice providers lately, you might have lost track of the CERT program. Now Medicare wants to remind you. “CMS created the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) Program to measure the Fee-for-Service payment error rate,” the agency says in a recent message to providers. “This identifies payments that don’t meet [...]
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