One example of health care fraud involves billing for more expensive services or procedures than were actually provided or performed. This practice is termed ______ and requires inflation of the patient's diagnosis code to a more serious condition consistent with the false procedure code.
A) ladder coding
B) trade coding
C) upcoding
D) step coding
Question 2
Which of the following statements concerning the authority of prison officials is true?
A) The authority of prison officials is unlimited.
B) The authority of prison officials is limited.
C) Prison officials have no authority per se, but must abide strictly by procedural guidelines.
D) The authority of prison officials is limited in state prisons, but unlimited in federal prisons
E) The authority of prison officials is limited in federal prisons, but unlimited in state prisons.
Preventive and Primary Care Services
Authoritative parenting involves enforcing rules in a way that conveys parental affection.
Patient health history form.
Procedures for Diagnostic Tests Related to the Digestive System
Health and Race-Ethnicity
A cowbird with its foster parent. A female cowbird minimizes her cost of parental care by laying her