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Jurisdiction D Reports Results of Widespread Pre-Payment Review for Spinal Orthoses

May 16, 2013 at 10:08 am

Noridian Healthcare Services, the Jurisdiction D DME MAC contractor has released the results from pre-payment reviews of claims for spinal; orthoses described by codes L0631 and L0637. For claims reviewed during the first quarter of 3013, the error rate for L0631 was 83% and the error rate for L0637 was 82%. In both cases, approximately […]

AOPA Continues Dialogue with OIG Regarding L0631 Spinal Orthoses

April 23, 2013 at 10:03 am

In an April 19, 2013 letter to Inspector General Daniel Levinson and Deputy Inspector General for Evaluation Stuart Wright, AOPA addressed several concerns regarding assertions that were made in the OIG response to AOPA’s comments on the December 2012 OIG report entitled Medicare Supplier Acquisition Costs for L0631 Back Orthoses. AOPA provided initial comments on […]