Indiana system to pay $2.9M to settle Medicaid overbilling allegations

By |2022-11-28T19:13:20+00:00November 28th, 2022|Uncategorized|

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/indiana-system-to-pay-2-9m-to-settle-medicaid-overbilling-allegations.html Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health System has agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle allegations it overbilled Medicaid between January 2017 and March 2021. Improper revenue codes were submitted to Medicaid for certain blood-clotting tests performed on patients at several Parkview hospitals, according to a Sept. 27 news release from the Indiana Attorney General's Office. Attorney [...]

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Generalist Coders – A Fallacy

By |2020-05-28T18:30:28+00:00May 21st, 2020|Remote Medical Coding, Uncategorized|

There is no such thing as a coder who knows it all. If your coder claims to be able to code every specialty, and you let them, you might want to get your checkbook ready to pay back some recoupments.  There are over 70,000 ICD-10 codes and 10,000 CPT codes. The wealth of knowledge is [...]

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Beware of Medical Coding Vendors Not Dedicated to Coding

By |2020-05-28T18:32:21+00:00May 21st, 2020|Uncategorized|

The coding industry is chock full of companies offering a bevy of services, one of them being coding.During our twenty five years in business, we have seen countless vendors in the healthcare revenue cycle industry add medical coding services to their service offerings. Their main focus is generally billing, scribe and documentation assistance, credentialing, or [...]

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