tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2013 Issue 19

CERT: Is Your MAC Likely to Come Looking for Money You Still Owe?

Good news: CERT results reveal practices actually made fewer errors in 2012 than in 2011. Unless you are among the few practices the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has identified as having been underpaid, it’s time to check your records to see if you are on the list of those who need to make repayments. CMS’s new Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results, which were released on Sept. 9, show that practices actually made fewer errors in 2012 than in the previous year (2011’s error rate was 8.6 percent). Most of the errors...

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