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CMS: Otolaryngologists Logged 10 Percent Error Rate Last Year

Published on Wed Jan 12, 2022

ENT specialists were responsible for over $79 million in projected improper payments. Otolaryngologists sometimes have to pivot between seeing patients in the office, performing surgeries, and scheduling hospital rounds — and this can mean dealing with a wide variety of code sets and rules. That could be the reason why providers in this specialty logged a 9.8 percent Part B [...]
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