DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2012 Issue 9 (September)

Benchmark of the Week: Services with highest improper payment rates, 2011

This chart shows the Medicare services with the highest improper payment rates along with the percentage of overall Medicare fee-for-service improper payments that service’s improper payments represent. The data, which come from CMS’ 2011 Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) report released in August, include both underpayments and overpayments, although the majority were overpayments.

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