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CMS Finds Rampant Errors Among Blepharoplasty Claims

Published on Wed Oct 19, 2016

No visual field testing? No Medicare payment, latest compliance newsletter says. You might be collecting Medicare payments for your blepharoplasty procedures without incident—but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re billing them properly. That’s the word from a recent CMS review of blepharoplasty claims that was published in the October 2016 edition of the Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter. The agency pored over [...]
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