Practice Management Alert

Mythbusters:

Get the Skinny on Advance Care Planning Before OIG Audits You

Hint: Don’t double dip on ACP and E/M services. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is lasering in on advance care planning (ACP) services. The agency says that Medicare providers weren’t always in compliance with federal requirements when billing for those services — to the tune of $42.3 million, based on their sampling. [...]
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