Comprehensive Error Rate Testing
Do You Have a CERT Question?
- CERT Alert: MD Orders Required for Laboratory Services
(04/21/08) - WPS CERT Error Rate Update (01/28/08)

- Top 10 Provider Compliance Error Rate Denial Reasons - CBT
- Have you Wondered about the Results of Your Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) Review? (08/06/07)
- Comprehensive error Rate Testing (CERT) Program Computer-Based (CBT) Training Question and Answer Teleconference (02/12/07)
- Special On-Line CERT Presentation
Please note: The following presentation is in PowerPoint and navigates differently than those in Adobe Acrobat. Just click on the arrows at the bottom of each slide to move backwards and forwards through the presentation. (updated 09/25/06) - Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) - Errors by Provider Type (02/26/07)

- All Specialty Errors - Updated November 2007
(02/04/08) - CERT Error Focus - Provider Reported Billing Errors (11/27/06)
- CERT Error Focus - Physicial Medicine and Rehabilitation Procedures and Modalities - CPT 97001-97546
- CERT Error Focus - Inpatient and Outpatient Initial Consultations - CPT 99241-99255
- CERT Error Focus - Subsequent Hospital Visits - CPT 99231-99233 (08/28/06)
- CERT Provider Compliance Error Rate (08/14/06)
- CERT Error Focus - Evaluation and Management - CPT 99211 (07/17/06)
- CERT Error Update - Insufficient Documentation
- Common CERT Errors - Chiropractic
- Common CERT Errors - Nephrology
- Common CERT Errors - Ambulance
- Common CERT Errors - Podiatry
- Common CERT Errors - Cardiology
- CERT Documentation Contractor - Update
- CERT Documentation - Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Services
- CERT Services Contributing to the Error Rate
- CERT Documentation for Inpatient Services
- CERT Documentation Updates
- WPS Commitment to Error Rate Reductions
- E & M Documentation Components

- December 2007 CERT Newsletter

- CERT Newsletter Archives
- Helpful CERT Links:
- CMS Evaluation and Management Services Guide (Revised April 2006)
(06/26/06) - Program Integrity Manual Updates via CR3786 (effective 08/01/05)

- 2007 Mid-Year Improper Medicare FFS Payments

- 2007 Mid-Year Over-Utilized Codes List

- CMS CERT Reports
- CERT Documentation Contractor (CDC) Provider Portal
(Published by the CERT Documentation Contractor (CDC))
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