tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 1

Pecos Edits: Beware 'N544' Errors Now That PECOS Edits Are Active

Unless CMS retroactively reverses the decision, those edits were turned on Jan. 6. You may have gotten used to pushing the PECOS edits off of your plate thanks to CMS’s multiple delays, but now that the time is here, the edits could potentially impact your bottom line. Take this opportunity to mitigate the damage by ensuring that your systems are ready for the changes. After delaying for years the edits which will require an ordering or referring physician to be en-rolled in PECOS, CMS began implementing them on Jan. 6. As of press time, that deadline was in...

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