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Neurosurgery Coding Errors:

Avoid Medicare Paybacks With These Expert Examples

Published on Fri Apr 21, 2017

Auditors found over $260 million in errors among neurosurgery codes. It's no secret that neurosurgery coders have immeasurably challenging jobs, reading intricate nerve, spine, and brain procedure notes and translating them into codes for billing purposes. But with coding not being an exact science, errors are bound to happen - and Medicare auditors are sure to find them. That's exactly [...]
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