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Pay Attention to These Details, Prepare for Post-COVID Audits

Published on Tue Aug 25, 2020

Check for time, audio/video documentation to keep telehealth claims clean. From a medical billing and coding perspective, there have been two silver linings to the COVID-19 emergency: the surge in the use of telehealth and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) relaxation of healthcare-related audits. But in a recent FAQ, CMS announced that it discontinued “exercising enforcement discretion [...]
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