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Which Specialties Are Billing Improperly?

Published on Mon Sep 30, 2013

The government’s CERT report not only identifies the types of errors that practices make — it also profiles which specialties had the highest Part B error rates, as follows: Specialty Error Rate Chiropractic 47.4%
Allergy/immunology 42.6%
Private practice occupational therapist 21.0%
Radiation Oncology 19.4%
Clinical laboratory 19.2%
Psychiatry 19.2%
Infectious disease 17.7%
Neurology [...]
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