DEAR DR. ROACH: When I have appointments with my physicians (at our local, highly rated academic health system), they no longer do a physical exam. But in the after-visit note, there is a documented ...
Andrew S. Oseran, MD, MBA, MSc, hypothesizes that higher Medicare Advantage (MA) risk scores may result from either a more accurate capture of beneficiaries' comorbidities or inappropriate "upcoding" ...
A Medicare Advantage plan run by CVS inflated diagnoses for its members between 2018 and 2019, resulting in almost $7 million in estimated overpayments, according to a new audit by the HHS Office of ...
The senior interest group is putting its backing behind bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing the practice of upcoding in Medicare Advantage, when healthcare providers bill for inaccurate codes ...