Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert

Published on Fri Jul 24, 2009 PDF

• You'll see more medical review for pressure reducing support surfaces if the OIG gets its way. Inappropriate Medicare payments for pressure reducing support surfaces amounted to about $33 million for these items during the first half of 2007 alone, according to a new OIG report.

The review found that 38 percent of the claims were undocumented, 22 percent were medically unnecessary, 17 percent had insufficient documentation, and 3 percent had other billing errors.