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These practices are getting more frequent.
This is a problem particularly for seniors in the Medicare Advantage program.
Isn’t Medicare Advantage the program that future Medicare recipients will be enrolled in if the Project 2025 folks get their way?
The one that has all the issues with over-billing the government, and all the horror stories about terrible coverage?
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicare-advantage-overbilling-diagnostic-codes-cms-killed-rule/