Product Description

You might think that a simple thing like the type of building in which a patient is treated wouldn’t cause a significant number of incorrectly processed claims, but the findings of a recently conducted audit by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) suggest otherwise. Medicare services provided from January 2010 through September 2012 are estimated to have been overpaid by $33.4 million because of incorrect place-of-service (POS) codes. Previous reviews indicate that this issue isn’t new, and the OIG attributes the overpayments to carelessness or volitionally fraudulent practices at the physician billing level, in addition to the general lack of awareness as to

Product Code: CPT-2015-JUL