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Ensure You Meet Signature Rules With These Tips

Published on Thu Apr 15, 2021

Once you’ve tightened up your medical documentation, there’s one last piece of the equation that you can’t forget — the provider’s signature. Medicare requires that services provided or ordered be authenticated by the author, and the method used for authenticating would be a handwritten or electronic signature. Stamped signatures are not acceptable with the exception of the author having a [...]
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