Pathology/Lab Coding Alert

OIG Compliance Alert:

Protect Your Lab From COVID-19-Related Fraud Charges

Document 3 key items for clean claims. Ballooning lab utilization and questionable “add on” testing has recently put labs under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) microscope. Read on to see how two reports and enforcement action from 2022 offer a cautionary tale for your lab this year. Beware False Billing of COVID-19 [...]
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