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I am looking for documentation that will support that copying off the hospitals coding summary/abstract to submit billing for professional services is wrong.
I have recently been informed that this is a widely used practice. I know it is wrong. I don't know if it is just ethically wrong or if there are guidelines that address this practice.
The hospital is sending the coding summary to the physician's office per their request. They are submitting billing based on the codes selected by the facility coder, whether they are outpatient or inpatient services. This practice allows physicians to not have to employ Certified Coders. In fact, this practice would allow the physicians to employ a trained monkey to copy codes from one paper to another. What type of responsibility does the facility have? How would one convince the physicians that this will lead to troubles for them in the future?
We all know as Certified coders that we would not trust the abstract and we would never allow our name to be put on someone elses codes.
Please, anyone send reference material information.
I have recently been informed that this is a widely used practice. I know it is wrong. I don't know if it is just ethically wrong or if there are guidelines that address this practice.
The hospital is sending the coding summary to the physician's office per their request. They are submitting billing based on the codes selected by the facility coder, whether they are outpatient or inpatient services. This practice allows physicians to not have to employ Certified Coders. In fact, this practice would allow the physicians to employ a trained monkey to copy codes from one paper to another. What type of responsibility does the facility have? How would one convince the physicians that this will lead to troubles for them in the future?
We all know as Certified coders that we would not trust the abstract and we would never allow our name to be put on someone elses codes.
Please, anyone send reference material information.