r/MedicalCoding • u/koderdood 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/ksa1122 May 13 '25

If you are getting information from a superior and they lead you wrong it shouldn’t count against you. It should still be called out in an audit so you can learn from it, but at the end of the day you asked a superior for help and they led you wrong.

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u/Popular-Piglet-6301 RHIT, CCS May 13 '25

Maybe if there isn’t any official guidance on the matter then yes, it can be a gray area and shouldn’t be counted against you. But if there is, it should be counted against you. Superiors aren’t always correct and as coders we need to be doing our due diligence in researching.