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Medical term Administrative Assisting
Billing a higher level of service than was provided or documented; a form of fraud.
Related terms
- fraudIntentional deception of a person or group for personal gain.
- SOAP noteA documentation format: Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan.
- source-oriented recordA medical record organized into sections by the source (discipline) that provided the information.
- UCRUsual, customary and reasonable: the amount paid for a service in an area based on what providers there…
- unbundlingBilling the parts of a service separately instead of using the single code that covers the whole service.
Study Administrative Assisting