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BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 8

But All My Friends are Doing it

At some point in our younger lives, we all probably used some version of the above phrase. My mom always responded with "If your friends were robbing a bank, would you do it too?" I can't help but think of this when I hear providers and coders tell me things like "all cardiologists do an EKG at every visit" or "my colleague puts a modifier 59 on that code and gets paid" or "the sales rep told us to bill it this way." You get the picture. Just because friends or colleagues are doing something doesn't...

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