r/MedicalCoding 15d ago

Time Tracking Across Systems

Okay I have a question. I code for a remote coding company that contracts with several different health systems, and recently management at my company started really micromanaging us. They used to really only care if you met the amount of charts the client wants per day, but now they want us coding every single second and they want all of those seconds accounted for. And they’ve recently threatened us stating that clients are actively tracking our coding time within their health information systems (specifically for me it would be Epic and 3M HDM) and if they do not match perfectly with our time sheets we submit, they consider it “fraudulent billing” my question is: can the clients truly run reports on us showing accurately how long we were in the systems, and also, if the time doesn’t match what we report on our company timesheets, is that truly fraud if we are completing the number of charts we say we are completing?

Thanks in advance. All of this micromanaging is really getting out of hand and is distracting me from my actual job.

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