HCPro, JustCoding Outpatient - 2016 Issue 3 (January)

Healthcare News: CERT finds improper payment rate of more than 62% on oxygen equipment and supplies

January 19th, 2016

The improper payment rate for oxygen equipment and supplies to the Medicare program was 62.1% with projected improper payments of approximately $952 million during the 2014 reporting period, according to a Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program study detailed in the January 2016 issue of the Medicare Quarterly Compliance Newsletter.

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