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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.

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