Error rates continue falling

Article Overview

This article summarizes CMS Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) mid-year results for Medicare claims and explains how overall payment error trends compare with prior periods and agency targets. It is aimed at coders, compliance staff, billing managers, and other revenue-cycle professionals who track Medicare audit activity and documentation risk. The discussion focuses on broad patterns in incorrect coding, documentation issues, and evaluation and management services, along with the agency’s ongoing consideration of a requested audit policy change.