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MUEs:

Vault Over Your Lab's 'Unit Edit' Hurdles

Published on Thu Jun 06, 2013

Discover guidelines to legitimately override edits or appeal claims. CMS’s theory behind medically unlikely edits (MUEs) sounds innocent enough: to reduce the paid claims error rate for multiple service units based on anatomic considerations, code descriptors and instructions, and CMS policies. But in practice, MUEs can place a roadblock in the way of your valid lab and pathology claims. Follow [...]
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