tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 9

Medicare Errors: Practices Underbilled $1.3 Billion in 2013, CMS Report Shows

CERT results reveal that initial hospital care, chiropractic visits topped list of Part B errors last year. If your practice’s collections rate was off by 10.5 percent, you’d be in big trouble, right? Well, that’s the 2013 Part B improper payment rate, based on information that CMS recently released, which also shows that medical practitioners left over $1 billion on the table by undercoding claims. CMS’s new Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results, which were released last month, show that chiropractic visits had far and away the most errors, totaling a 51.5 percent...

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