Tip: Compare and contrast your internal issues against the national averages.
Even if your practice’s coders are stellar and never miss a beat, there’s always room for improvement. Medicare has a plethora of rules and requirements that make billing complicated, and CERT data can be a helpful tool to circumvent documentation, reporting, and coding problems.
Details: Whether your notes, coding, and compliance policies are spot on or your Medicare claims could use a little help, reviewing the annual Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) report can help with audit planning, rectifying outlier tendencies, and problem solving. Another bonus...
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