This month's idea: Use PEPPER reports to stay on top of common coding errors
HIM Briefings, February 1, 2010
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CMS has once again contracted with the TMF Health Quality Institute to release Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPER) data in 2010.
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