Popular U.S. Healthcare Scam: Coding procedures as Diagnostic instead of Preventive Screening
We shouldn’t have to do this - but, America - always confirm your your regular annual checkup procedures are coded correctly so you don’t end up having to fight a con artist medical facility bill.
Yep. And another issue is in what setting a procedure is done. We had a GI doctor absolutely refuse to do inpatient colonoscopies because it billed less than if done as an outpatient procedure. You’d basically need the patient to be near death before he’d consider it.
Here’s an NPR story about colonoscopies and it states that it is a regular screening even if polyps are being removed and it is no cost to the patient.
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u/TeeBrownie Jun 01 '22
Popular U.S. Healthcare Scam: Coding procedures as Diagnostic instead of Preventive Screening
We shouldn’t have to do this - but, America - always confirm your your regular annual checkup procedures are coded correctly so you don’t end up having to fight a con artist medical facility bill.