DEAR DR. ROACH: When I have appointments with my physicians (at our local, highly rated academic health system), they no longer do a physical exam. But in the after-visit note, there is a documented ...

if you have an appointment with a doctor and the tech takes your blood pressure and temp then tells you the doctor is not in. You wait and ask the tech one or two questions while waiting. The doctor ...

Andrew S. Oseran, MD, MBA, MSc, hypothesizes that higher Medicare Advantage (MA) risk scores may result from either a more accurate capture of beneficiaries' comorbidities or inappropriate "upcoding" ...

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For-profit status was found to influence the probability of upcoding for inpatient cases involving non-life-threatening injuries with implications for Medicaid and other insurers. Logistic regression ...