Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

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Nail Down Your E/M Claims to Stay Off the Audit Hit List

Relationship with the coder and the education of the physician are critical. The latest CERT report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) indicates that error rates are climbing. The spotlight on evaluation and management (E/M) coding and incident-to billing has not decreased, so practices need to be extra careful with E/M coding and NPP billing. Get the [...]
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