Teresa A. Mason, Member of the Firm in the Health Care & Life Sciences practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, was featured in an episode of The Coding Compliance Podcast, in “Handling and (Hopefully) Avoiding CMS’s Targeted Probe and Educate Program,” hosted by Ross Ronan, Neal Green, and Mark Babst.
Following is an excerpt:
CMS’s Targeted Probe and Educate (“TPE”) Program is yet another mechanism to ensure accurate and compliant claims are submitted for reimbursement to Medicare. This episode Teresa Mason of Epstein Becker Green joins the team to delve into what do TPE’s consist of, how to best handle them and which steps can be taken ahead of time to avoid being targeted for a TPE audit. Tune in to make sure you are prepared to avoid or survive a TPE audit.