Compliance: Cut Audit Odds With This Expert Advice
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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to streamline its documentation policies to reduce administrative burdens, you might be tempted to scale back on your internal reviews of your coding practices and billing processes. But evidence suggests that the feds want you to keep a running checklist of your practice road bumps as well as utilize risk-based auditing tactics.
That was the word from Frank Cohen, director of analytics and business intelligence at Doctors Management, during his Jan. 16 presentation, “Risk-based Auditing: New Tools and Techniques.&rdquo...
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