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CERT Report:

Highlight Laboratory Documentation Deficiency

Published on Wed Apr 08, 2020

Improve quality for ‘sufficient’ records. Your lab undoubtedly strives for excellent documentation practices to demonstrate medical necessity and accurately report services, but the latest Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) report from CMS says you’re not doing too well. In fact, many specialties suffer a common malady that results in “improper” payments, according to the report, and that’s “insufficient documentation.” Read [...]
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