tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2019 Issue 1

Practice Management: Duck Signature-Error Denials With These Steps

Don’t lose pay over this easy compliance fix. Even a coder who’s mastered CPT® and ICD-10-CM can’t “save the claim” if providers fail to adequately sign the medical records. “Signature issues are among the biggest findings in the comprehensive error rate testing (CERT) and medical error rate programs, said NGS Medicare’s Gail O’Leary during the MAC’s recent webinar “Medicare Signature Guidelines.” Here’s why: Medicare requires that services provided or ordered be authenticated by the author, and the method used for authenticating would be a handwritten or electronic signature...

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