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Don't Let E/M Coding Blunders Eat Into Your Profits

Published on Tue Jan 14, 2014

CMS finds 14.0 percent improper E/M payment rate. Your practice could lose out on collections to a tune of 8.5 percent if you have been making errors in coding E/M services. and the 2012 Medicare Fee-for-Service improper payment rate is applicable to you. CMS’s new Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results, which were released on Sept. 9, show that practices [...]
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