Cardiology Coding Alert

Medicare Billing:

Use CERT Findings to Buttress Your Claims

Focus on E/M, pacemakers. You would be aghast if your cardiology practice had a 35.1 percent error rate in reporting cardiac pacemaker services — yet that’s the rate CMS found in the latest Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results. Pacemakers are not the only cardiology service in the CERT spotlight, so you should read on to get ready in case [...]
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