alices
Guru
I hope someone will answer this for me. I am a certified coder and work with all certified coders, I was given a project to train remote coders to code our facility side (ER claims) i was also told not to check there coding on the profee side, now my dilema is that I have to look at the chart in order to train them i have come across them coding the profee side to high, in that they are given them 99284 when in the hpi it only has 2 to 3 elements I have already told my manager about them and there dx's and was told again i am not to check any of there work except just to check the facility level to make sure they are correct. I asked the other coders and told them that i wanted to go and talk to my manager about it because for me i was always told that if i know that a claim is wrong and i let it go out like that then i am just as responsible, is that right? We don't do the billing we code the levels for both sides then we code the dx's and procedures.. so i need some guidance here on this, would I get into trouble if I just let the chg slips go to the billing svc with whatever the remote coders do? Where can I find information on legalities of billing..I am sorry for such a long question but I really need some help on this..thank you alice