Busy practitioners often
miscode, mistype and use incorrect templates.
Due to the systemic incentives for prescribers and pharmacists to
miscode diagnoses in order to get CMS to pay for the prescription drugs needed by patients, the decision to treat patients effectively in the short-term under a strict coverage enforcement policy would undermine the potential to more effectively treat vulnerable patients, reduce prescription errors, and properly allocate federal health care dollars in the future.
Patient status (confirmed or suspected lymphocytic choriomeningitis [LCM] or
miscode) was determined by the chart reviewer on the basis of the criteria.
Another reason why small businesses are coming up short of their 23 percent share is that in many instances government agencies "
miscode" large contractors as small companies.
The audit showed that a badly outdated system, plus a lack of experienced financial staff caused the department to
miscode some projects that were eligible for federal reimbursement, delaying the state's collection of millions in federal money, officials said.
WAYNE THOMAS General Secretary, National Union of Mineworkers, South Wales Area, Woodland Terrace,
Miscode, Pontypridd
We know that physicians purposefully
miscode psychiatric diagnoses, so any conclusions relying on diagnosis data are unreliable.
Maybe I'll
miscode either the disease status or the quality of care.
For example, practices throw away substantial revenue every year, either because they
miscode encounters, they undercode visits, or they don't know how to properly document everything that occurred in a patient visit.
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