The Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) Process for Handling a Provider’s Allegation of Medical Record Destruction
Special Edition Medlearn Matters article SE0547 outlines the process Medicare providers should follow when medical records requested by Medicare's Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) Documentation Contractor (CDC) and/or Medicare's CERT Review Contractor (CRC) are destroyed by disaster. For CERT purposes, a "disaster" is defined as any natural or man-made catastrophe which causes damages of sufficient severity and magnitude to partially or completely destroy or delay access to medical records and associated documentation.
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