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Cardiology Coding Alert

Audits:

Prioritize Place of Service Coding or Risk OIG Scrutiny

Published on Tue Aug 11, 2015

Don’t make this $10,000 angioplasty mistake. In a recent audit, the OIG found that MACs overpaid physicians to the tune of $33.4 million for incorrectly coded services that took place between January 2010 and September 2012. “Physicians performed these services in facility locations, but physicians incorrectly coded the services as performed in non-facility locations,” the agency says in its report, [...]
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