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CERT Report:

Alert Physicians to Avoid Common Lab-Test Order Errors

Published on Mon Dec 13, 2021

Fill holes in documentation. Lab test orders are one area that frequently caused errors during Medicare processing in 2021. That’s the word from the latest Comprehensive Error Rate testing (CERT) report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). That key piece of advice was shared by CGS Medicare’s Julene Lienard during a recent Part B payer’s webinar “Top [...]
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