tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2018 Issue 9

Benchmarking: Compare Your Opioid Prescription Stats Against Your Peers

Hint: Don't fret over higher than average tendencies, reps say. Many Medicare providers care for patients presenting with pain every day. This often means that patients request - or require - pain medication prescriptions, but because of an increasing number of accidental overdoses of these drugs, physicians must use extreme caution when prescribing them. A new Comparative Billing Report (CBR) from Medicare Part B MAC Palmetto GBA outlines some ofthe national statistics on opioid prescribing to help you figure out how your practice compares to other opioid prescribers. Context: In its CBR released March 7, Part B MAC Palmetto...

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