Top 20 Services with Insufficient Documentation: Carriers/DMERCs/FIs

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Carriers (HCPCS), DMERCs (HCPCS), and FIs (Type of Bill) Insufficient Documentation Errors
Paid Claims Error Rate Projected Improper Payments 95% Confidence Interval
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Hospital-outpatient (HHA-A also)(under OPPS 13X must be used for ASC claims submitted for OPPS payment -- eff. 7/00) (13) 1.4% $252,717,184 1.0% - 1.7%
Subsequent hospital care (99232) 4.5% $98,916,844 3.2% - 5.8%
SNF-inpatient (including Part A) (21) 0.5% $75,037,569 ( 0.1%) - 1.2%
Subsequent hospital care (99233) 6.2% $70,826,277 3.4% - 9.1%
ESRD related svs 4+mo 20+yrs (G0317) 8.8% $44,518,105 3.1% - 14.6%
Chiropractic manipulation (98941) 11.3% $41,814,339 7.9% - 14.8%
Initial hospital care (99223) 5.0% $35,249,167 2.3% - 7.7%
Subsequent hospital care (99231) 7.9% $34,753,978 3.7% - 12.1%
Therapeutic exercises (97110) 4.4% $28,636,453 2.9% - 6.0%
Clinic-hospital based or independent renal dialysis facility (72) 0.5% $25,997,646 0.2% - 0.9%
SNF-inpatient or home health visits (Part B only) (22) 2.1% $23,788,447 1.0% - 3.1%
Office/outpatient visit, est (99213) 0.5% $20,271,562 0.3% - 0.7%
Office/outpatient visit, est (99211) 11.8% $18,523,261 8.4% - 15.2%
Chiropractic manipulation (98942) 20.4% $16,035,608 9.3% - 31.5%
Office/outpatient visit, est (99214) 0.4% $15,418,735 0.2% - 0.7%
Initial inpatient consult (99254) 2.1% $14,252,568 0.4% - 3.9%
HHA-outpatient (HHA-A also) (33) 0.3% $13,101,799 ( 0.2%) - 0.8%
Critical care, first hour (99291) 2.3% $11,888,572 ( 0.5%) - 5.1%
bls (A0428) 1.6% $11,825,717 ( 0.1%) - 3.4%
SNF-outpatient (HHA-A also) (23) 5.4% $11,776,482 ( 0.2%) - 11.0%
All Other Codes 0.6% $550,547,101 0.6% - 0.7%
Overall 1.0% $1,415,897,415 0.9% - 1.1%