Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Industry Notes

58 Percent of PECOS Records Are Inaccurate, OIG Says You diligently transferred your Medicare enrollment records over from the old NPPES system to the PECOS system, but don’t pat yourself on the back just yet. The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently reviewed provider enrollment files and found that many of them were wildly inaccurate, while others were incomplete. [...]
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