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False Claims Act·Compliance & Enforcement Brief

Billing Coders Not Allowed to Guess at Diagnoses Based on Patient History

A district court in New York denied a motion to dismiss a complaint alleging healthcare fraud, finding no support for the defendants’ assertion that billing coders are allowed to infer  what occurred during a patient visit based on years-old diagnoses.

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