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Part B Payments:

CMS: 11.3 Percent of ED Visits Were Paid Improperly

Published on Wed Jan 09, 2019

Emergency department practitioners exceed the national improper payment rate. Your emergency department is probably active and bustling every day, but it’s possible that with all that activity, correct coding could be falling through the cracks. ED practices logged higher error rates than the general Part B population, according to the latest report from CMS. The backstory:  CMS issued its “2018 [...]
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