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CERT Results Show E/M Errors Top the Problem List
Published on Tue Nov 19, 2013
CMS finds 14.0 percent improper E/M payment rate. If your practice’s collections rate was off by 8.5 percent, you’d be in big trouble, right? Well, that’s the 2012 Medicare Fee-for-Service improper payment rate, and your MAC may come looking for money you still owe to them. CMS’s new Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results, which were released on Sept. 9, [...]