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Medicare Errors:

Lab Requests Rank Among This Payer’s Biggest Error-Prone Areas

Published on Mon Oct 18, 2021

Plus: Other common Part B errors involved E/M coding, care management. If you’ve ever wondered whether your coding could use a tune-up, it may be a good idea to first examine your lab orders. This is one area that frequently causes errors during Medicare processing, and those issues are often related to missing documentation. That key piece of advice was [...]
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