EM Coding Alert

Compliance:

Safeguard Your Critical Care Claims with Internal Audits

Take these steps to avoid MAC, RAC, and CERT scrutiny. Critical care services are currently under a number of different microscopes. Not only are Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) targeting the services, but so too are Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), while Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) auditors are compiling improper payment rate data. One way to possibly avoid this kind of [...]
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