Electronic health records are being increasingly used, replacing their more cumbersome paper counterparts with a system of added convenient and efficiency. In fact, Congress has passed legislation in the last five years that provides incentives to encourage healthcare providers to …
Over the past decade medical costs have been steadily rising faster than inflation. There are several explanations for this, and logically one could surmise that one of them is upcoding, the practice of a health care provider or medical coder …
In recent years the Medicare and Medicaid programs have lost an estimated $2.3 billion to fraud. It is every private practice doctor’s or hospital’s worst nightmare to see a team of federal agents surrounding their premises as part of an …