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Benchmarking:

Are Your 99285 Claims in the Outlier Zone?

Published on Thu Aug 01, 2019

Use the latest benchmarking stats to see where your practice falls. If a majority of your emergency department (ED) claims are reported with 99285, you may want to revisit your coding practices. Some EDs are billing this high-level code on over 80 percent of their claims, far exceeding the average. That’s the word from a new comparative billing report (CBR) [...]
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