DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 2 (February)

Fee-for-service error rate doubles to 7.8%, new report finds

Stricter audit standards and a new way to measure errors led to a big increase in the number of mistakes made by you and your peers uncovered on audit, according to CMS's latest error rate findings. The Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) error rate dramatically increased to 7.8% in 2009, CMS says in its latest Comprehensive Error Rate Test (CERT) report.

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