Ophthalmology and Optometry Coding Alert

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E/M Errors Top Medicare's List of Improperly Billed Codes in 2012

CERT results reveal $29.6 billion in improper Medicare payments — $1.1 billion of which was underpaid. If your practice’s collections rate was off by 8.5 percent, you’d be in big trouble, right? Well, that’s the 2012 Medicare Fee-for-Service improper payment rate, and your MAC may come looking for money you still owe to them.   CMS’s new Comprehensive Error Rate [...]
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