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Here's How to Establish Medical Necessity and Counter CT Services Denials

Published on Fri Dec 23, 2016

Using modifier CT? Brace yourself for a 15 percent cut in 2017. Have you been facing denials of your advanced imaging procedures lately? Well, you may not be the only one. In fact, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), about 12.4 percent of 2015 claims for these services were inappropriate. Know what it takes to successfully [...]
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