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Continuing education units, AKA CEUs. We know you need them, that's why DecisionHealth offers AAPC CEUs for its coding and billing webinars. And we give everyone on your revenue team three ways to earn CEUs for the price of one registration fee.
Triage, a medical device used to diagnose heart issues, didn't work -- and its maker, Alere, charged with selling it anyway, just settled with the U.S. Department of Justice for $33.2 million.

Investigators and prosecutors continue to use their coding knowledge to wring big settlements from practices. These tactics have left four physician practices poorer by an average of $218,465, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland announced on March 16.

Question: How does the Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (SMRC) determine which reviews to perform? Does SMRC work for CMS or our Medicare administrative contractor (MAC)?
It's a familiar scenario: A provider is accused of letting unqualified, improperly supervised employees perform services and billing for their work. It is a scenario we associate with small practices, not a large health system with multiple locations and — one assumes — a robust compliance policy.

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