DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 2 (February)

Improper inpatient payments drive 10.5% error rate, $34.3b in improper payments

A rise in place of service errors by your peers kept the improper payment rate in the double digits for the 2010 fiscal year that ended in September. The Comprehensive Error Rate Test (CERT) improper payment rate was 10.5% in 2010, nearly two percentage points lower than the 2009 rate, CMS says.

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