Gastroenterology Coding Alert

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Non-Medicare Payers May Perform Audits

Question: We treat pediatric patients who require GI care, so we don’t submit many Medicare claims, except in rare circumstances. Our new practice manager keeps asking us to create an audit preparation plan, but why should we worry about audits if we don’t really deal with Medicare? Texas Subscriber Answer: Medicare is not the only payer that performs audits of [...]
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