Study Finds Nursing Homes That Upcoded Residents’ Conditions Resulted In More Preventable Conditions, More Hospitalizations, And More Deaths
The abstract to a study published in October 2024 entitled Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry states: “Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) systems that provided excess rehab therapy just above revenue thresholds quickly begin upcoding previously unidentified com[...]