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Unlicensed Cosmetic Surgery Hospitalizes 6 in N.J.

New Jersey medical authorities are investigating the incidence of and issuing alerts on unlicensed cosmetic surgery providers after 6 women suffered...

Rotator Cuff Repair Restores Strength, Not Function

Rotator cuff surgery may restore a patient's normal shoulder strength, but mobility issues persist in the repaired joint, according to researchers a...

Do Patients Expect Too Much From Joint Replacement?

Even with a thorough pre-op education program, more than two-thirds of joint replacement patients don't share the expectations that their surgeons d...

Archive > January, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 1
Coding & Billing
Most Common ASC and Hospital Billing Errors
Torrey Kim

If the latest Medicare report is any indication, outpatient surgery claims could use some TLC in 2008. According to CMS's Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results, Medicare carriers discovered more than $259 million in undercoding billing errors and $1.6 billion worth of claims that were paid, but later found to have no supporting documentation, meaning that those dollars had to be paid back.

Categories: Code/Bill/Reimburse, Gastroenterology, GYN/Urology
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