Medical Coding Mistakes Cost You Big-Here’s How to Fix It!

What this video covers

This video catalogs the most expensive coding errors, including unbundling, wrong modifiers, outdated codes, and mismatched diagnoses, then presents a correction plan a practice can start this quarter. It covers audit sampling, coder training, and denial root-cause tracking. For owners and billing managers who suspect their denial rate is higher than it should be.

• Denials are the symptom. A denial rate above the common 5 to 10 percent range usually points to repeatable coding errors, not payer randomness.
• Undercoding hides losses. Cautious code selection avoids audits but silently gives up earned reimbursement on visits your clinicians already delivered.
• Audit before payers do. Regular internal chart sampling finds error patterns early, while corrections are cheap and before a payer audit makes them expensive.
• Track root causes. Log why each denial happened; fixing the top three recurring causes typically recovers more than any appeal campaign.

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