Health insurance company UnitedHealthcare is suing TeamHealth, a company that staffs hospital emergency rooms, alleging TeamHealth billed for more expensive ER services that didn’t match the care doctors actually provided, Axios reports.
This is another alleged instance of “upcoding,” which has existed in health care for many years and leads to everyone paying higher medical premiums.
UnitedHealthcare analyzed ER claims and records from TeamHealth, saying they found 62% of TeamHealth’s claims involving the highest-paying ER codes were unjustified by notes in medical records. Read more.
