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The 950,000 individual health records in its care may only be mislaid, but this health care company didn't wait to launch its breach program.

Proving that there's always room for more confusion where drug screen billing and coding is concerned, Medicare today announced that it is putting a hold on drug screen claims (G0477-G0483).
In the Jan. 25 issue of Part B News, editor Julia Kyles, CPC, shared a "lifeline" for practices seeking to report their 2015 physician quality reporting system (PQRS) data.
In 2015, providers undercoded their way out of $1.2 billion, a large portion of which was tied to underreporting established-patient office visits related to E/M codes 99211-99215.

CMS officials have dropped some tantalizing clues, but still fail to deliver change in the much-maligned incentive program.

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