Cause And Effect Of Double Billing

Some of the most common causes of errors in coding and billing are typos, incorrect dates, and double billing. Typos, or typing mistakes can occur when entering a patients name or address. Incorrect dates can be only a small part of a couple different errors. For example, a patient could have only been in the hospital for seven days, but get charged for nine. Another example is that a patient could have undergone surgery that took only one hour, but charged for three hours. Double billing can occur when the patient’s health care provider tries to bill a patient for two separate procedures when they really only received one.
There are a couple of different ways that errors in billing and coding can be solved. One way of doing this is that