Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
Add This CERT Contractor Change to Your Update List
The Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) review contractor has a new name — and new contact information, too. Now: “Effective March 21, 2023, the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) contractor, formerly known as NCI Information Systems Inc., underwent a name change. The new name is Empower AI Inc.,” Part B Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Novitas Solutions notes in a release on the change. The CERT statistical contractor remains the Lewin Group Inc. If you have documentation questions, Empower AI’s contact information has changed, according to Part A/B MAC Palmetto GBA’s release and can be found at www.palmettogba.com/ palmetto/jjb.nsf/DIDC/M5PPHI24YK~Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT)~Announcements and Reports.
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