Medicare Errors:
DMEPOS, Home Health, E/M Factor Heavily in the 2015 Fee-For-Service Error Rate
Published on Wed Oct 19, 2016
Though CERT data helped decrease errors, improper payments are still in the billions. With five distinct components in place garnered from extensive Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) data, CMS saw a decreased fee-for-service improper error rate from 12.5 percent to 12.1 percent from 2014 to 2015. The adjusted rate did make a difference of about $1.4 billion, but the total [...]