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Becker's Healthcare July 11, 2023
It is safe to say that opinions on whether coding “destroys everything” in healthcare vary from complete support of that position to robust defense of the coding industry and the workers employed in it, according to LinkedIn comments in the wake of a June 29 Becker’s article.
“Very much on point” and “Spot on” are some of the comments agreeing with Michael Connelly, former CEO of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health, when he identifies coding and its potential abuses as contributing to fraud and as a “massive headache.”
“Agree with you wholeheartedly,” wrote Surender Neravetla, MD, an Ohio-based heart surgeon. “Coding is where we need to start the change.”
Others fell on the opposite side of the fence. One reader, Amy Flatter,...
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