How to avoid the crosshairs of CMS auditors
Legal Ease | The federal government has announced it will soon be using “targeted tactics” to audit a select group of chiropractors who exceed rendering 12 visits per year to Medicare patients. In a report by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that provisions for oversight include requiring preauthorization of services provided by chiropractors with aberrant billing or high rates of denials.
