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Implement These 6 Ideas To Fight Therapy Denials

Published on Fri Jun 16, 2017

Who is reviewing your therapy documentation? One Medicare Administrative Contractor has reviewed nearly 12,000 claims and denied or downcoded many of them for therapy-based reasons. If you’re one of the home health agencies hit by these therapy-based denials — or just want to avoid being one — consider some expert advice by industry veterans: 1. Conduct therapy audits. HHH MAC [...]
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