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Performing Vent Management? Heed These Tips to Avoid Auditor Scrutiny

Published on Mon May 07, 2018

Hint: Make sure medical necessity, bundling issues are handled. If you were submitting more than half of your claims with errors on them, you'd eventually notice, right? That seems to be how CMS feels about ventilator claims, since a recent audit found that the improper payment rate for ventilators was 57.4 percent. That's the word from the April 2018 Medicare [...]
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