DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2012 Issue 4 (April)

Expert tips on how to turn a claims audit into revenue saved

Save your practice potentially thousands of dollars of recouped funds by using regular audits to find coding and documentation errors before your payers do.

“You don’t want your practice to lose money earned because you failed to find an error; you want to protect yourself,” says Tori Kreher, compliance officer for the Orthopedic Center of Southern Illinois in Mt. Vernon, who performs annual audits for her practice. “If you correct it, it won’t cause you as much [of a] problem in the long run.”

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