tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2017 Issue 10

Part B Errors: This ED Error Is Among CMS's Examples of How Not to Report Claims

Check out the highlights from the government's latest error report to find out what auditors discovered. To err is human - but to find those errors is an art form. That is, according to CMS's auditors, who pored over claims from last year and compiled them into the government's new Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results, which were released on July 27. According to the "Medicare Fee-for-Service 2016 Improper Payments Report," the government found an 11.7 percent Part B error rate, which included $10.4 billion in overpayments to providers and $0.5 billion in underpayments. Although...

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