DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 3 (March)

8 ways you can meet signature requirements mandated by CMS

You must meet CMS's signature requirements today or risk an auditor rejecting your claims and demanding you make costly repayments. The Comprehensive Error Rate Test (CERT) used rigorous criteria to review signatures on medical records in its latest error rate report. As a result, the error rate more than doubled to 7.8% in 2009 (PBN 2/8/10). Medical records - including physician orders and prescriptions - without valid signatures used to support a paid claim will be rejected by CERT auditors and the claim will be denied for lack of medical necessity.

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