Go for accuracy, consistency as OIG audit pinpoints diagnosis coding errors
Exert extra attention on your diagnosis coding, particularly under Medicare Advantage (MA) models, or you may be at risk of a CMS regulations – and your payers’ beneficence. A May 2 report from the OIG found that some physician practices were at the root of basic coding errors that were causing federal overpayments.
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