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CMS: Pulmonologists Logged $128 Million in Improper Part B Payments

Published on Fri Jan 18, 2019

Plus: Chest physicians among worst offenders when it came to subsequent hospital visit errors. Pulmonologists see patients in both the office and the inpatient setting, and sometimes that can lead to confusion in terms of the codes that should be selected. Some pulmonology practices appear to have faced issues selecting codes last year, when these specialists logged $128 million in [...]
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