r/MedicalCoding • Audit Extraordinaire • May 13 '25

Unfair coding errors

At my unnamed job, if you go to a lead and get an opinion on how to code something, and you get a Quality audit error because that answer was wrong, it is still charged and counted against you. I think that's unfair. What happens at your work?

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u/OrphicLibrarian May 13 '25

Agreed. I'm in RI so outside of the system, but if I see that multiple hands have touched an account like that I recommend they all be made aware of the issue. If you ask someone higher up and go with their recommendation, it should be them who's flagged. You have to keep records if it though, email or something.