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Ophthalmology and Optometry Coding Alert

Compliance:

Check for Medical Necessity in Every Chart to Avoid Audit Scrutiny

Published on Thu Dec 17, 2020

Avoid the fate of this optometrist, who must pay over $3 million back to Medicare. Have you ever wondered whether your unusually unique code submissions could catch auditors’ attention? If you thought that was just an urban myth, think again One optometrist learned that lesson the hard way this fall and agreed to pay $3.2 million back to Medicare to [...]
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