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Heed This Insight On Documentation Requests For CERT Reviews

Published on Thu Jun 20, 2024

Question: Our practice is currently in the middle of a Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) audit, and we’ve already sent a lot of documentation for specific services rendered to Medicare beneficiaries. Yesterday, we received another request for medical records for a patient, whose records we have already submitted. Should we just ignore the most recent request to avoid confusion since we’ve [...]
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