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Great, You’re a Perfectionist. Now What?

I’ve been auditing for almost thirty years. In that time, I’ve learned that auditors are typically extremely detail oriented, which is fantastic.

On July 12, 2018, CMS published its annual update of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

The National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) is a program designed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to prevent overpayment or improper payment of procedures that should not be submitted together.

Did you know that Audit Manager Facility makes it easy for you to conduct audits for any encounter type, inpatient or outpatient, for either coders or providers? It’s true.

“....O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

Training practitioners to better document their visits seems to spark frustration like nothing else among auditors, so much so that auditing forums are full of auditors asking for tips and tricks of the trade.

Let’s say you’re a Medicare Advantage organization and one day you receive a notification from CMS that you’ve been selected for a program audit. What should you do?

You might be using an outside billing company, a central business office or practice staff to provide medical billing services. And you might be feeling pretty great about the work they do.