Honesty and accuracy in billing for payment by a federal health care program or payment by any third-party payer is vital. Each physician employed by Cardiology Medical Group is expected to monitor compliance with applicable billing rules. No Cardiology Medical Group employee will submit, authorize, or sign a false claim for reimbursement in violation of applicable laws and regulations.
Cardiology Medical Group employed health care professionals will refrain from any of the following practices and work to identify and correct instances in which mistakes have occurred in the following areas:
•Billing for items or services not rendered or not provided as billed.
•Submitting claims for equipment, medical supplies, and services that are not reasonable and necessary.
•Double-billing resulting in duplicate payment.
•Billing for non-covered services as if covered.
•Knowingly misusing provider identification numbers, resulting in improper billing.
•Unbundling (billing for each component of the service instead of billing or using an all-inclusive code).
•Failure to properly use coding modifiers.
•Falsely indicating that a particular health care professional attended a procedure.
•Clustering (billing all patients using a few middle levels of service codes under the assumption that it will average out to the appropriate level of reimbursement).
•Failing to refund credit balances.
•Upcoding the level of service provided.
If the patient has secondary insurance, the biller takes the amount left over after the primary insurance returns the approved claim and sends it to the patient’s secondary insurance.