if you have an appointment with a doctor and the tech takes your blood pressure and temp then tells you the doctor is not in. You wait and ask the tech one or two questions while waiting. The doctor ...

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We’ve been accused of upcoding our therapy reimbursement claims. What can we do? “Upcoding” — billing for services under procedure codes that are reimbursed at higher rates than those applying to ...

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Andrew S. Oseran, MD, MBA, MSc, hypothesizes that higher Medicare Advantage (MA) risk scores may result from either a more accurate capture of beneficiaries' comorbidities or inappropriate "upcoding" ...

ANAHEIM, CA—Most interventional cardiologists believe that public reporting of PCI outcomes leads to avoidance of procedures and upcoding of patient clinical comorbidities, according to a survey of ...

High-intensity billing during "treat and release" emergency department stays rose significantly from 2006 to 2019, and was partially fueled by factors such as changes in case mix and service offering ...

In five states over nearly a decade, hospitals have increased how frequently they document patients as needing the highest intensity care, which has led to hospitals receiving billions in extra ...

The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care and American Health Care Association expressed outrage over a news report that alleged widespread use of so-called “upcoding” in nursing homes. “This article ...

Medicare Advantage plans may have received higher payments as a result of upcoding from 2010 to 2014, according to new research published by Health Management, Policy & Innovation. The study's authors ...