Clinical laboratories may have heard billing code 81408 referred to as “fraudomatic,” and now the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has attached a remarkable number to this problem: $888 million over four years. Payers now have an even greater reason to inspect 81408 claims from genetic testing labs. Reaffirming past reporting here and elsewhere, a […]
OIG Says Billing Code 81408 Is at Risk of ‘Improper’ Payment
Also in the July 31, 2023, issue, learn how a university achieved a digital pathology rollout in just one year
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXX, No. 11 - July 31, 2023 Issue
