CERT Report:
Highlight General Surgery 'Improper Payments'
Published on Wed Apr 15, 2020
E/M leads coding trouble spots. Even if your surgeons strive for excellent documentation and your coders check to ensure the record demonstrates medical necessity and accurately matches coding on claims, you have room for improvement. That’s according to the latest Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) report from CMS, which lists a 5.8 percent improper payment rate among general surgery providers. [...]