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Audit (A-09-12-02021)

08-28-2012
Review of Medicare Outpatient Billing for Selected Drugs at Essentia Health Duluth

Executive Summary

For 87 of the 131 line items reviewed, Essentia Health Duluth did not bill Medicare for injections of selected drugs in accordance with Federal requirements, resulting in overpayments totaling $865,000.

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