Health and Human Services.A roadmap for new physicians: avoiding Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse. American Medical Association.8 medical coding mistakes that could cost you. Center for Health Journalism.Fraudulently or not, overlooked practice of 'upcoding' costs Medicare billions. National Hea...
When the idea of making all patients' medical records electronic was first suggested in the '60s, the long-term benefits of having access to everyone's complete medical history seemed obvious: better care and lower costs. Five decades later-and 3 years after the federal government set aside $...
Specifically, in or around September 2012, Lee began fraudulently informing Medicare patients that they needed vein ablation procedures when they had no visible signs of varicose veins, no adverse symptoms, no ultrasound images of diagnostic venous insufficiency, and no other medical n...
Why is there a problem with upcoding and overbilling?Keith Loria
Lee Cearnal. (2013) Electronic Medical Records Link to Upcoding Under Fire. Annals of Emergency Medicine 61 , A17-A19 /Lee, Cearnal. (2013) Electronic Medical Records Link to Upcoding Under Fire. Annals of Emergency Medicine 61 , A17-A19 /...