Advocacy group intensifies push for prepayment audits as Medicare loses $36.1B The Council for Medicare Integrity is upping its push for the use of prepayment audits in the Medicare program, noting that tens of billions have been lost due to errors. In an announcement last week, the advocacy group noted that the federal government has been able to drop the error rate in Medicare fee-for-service billing from 9.5% down to 8.1% during the 2018 fiscal year. Yet the Centers for Medicare & […]