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 …
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