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Home > News > July, 2009
CMS Makes It Official: It Won’t Pay for Surgical Errors
New NCDs posted on the Web.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services posted National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) on its Web site that state that the agency won’t pay for wrong-site, wrong patient and wrong-procedure surgery.

—Dan O’Connor

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