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Pandemic Brings Optometrist’s Fraudulent Practices to Light

Published on Wed Mar 16, 2022

Avoid his fate by catching coding and billing inaccuracies as soon as you see them. Many medical practices had to change their processes during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and that process change had both its positives and negatives. But what one optometrist may not have foreseen was the effect those changes would have on the government’s scrutiny of [...]
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