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Last time I went to see the optometrist (who keeps and all paper office) he told that he has started to see a huge uptick in fraud. How did he know? He started
by hyperion2010 9y ago
Last time I went to see the optometrist (who keeps and all paper office) he told that he has started to see a huge uptick in fraud.
How did he know? He started seeing records from certain docs where they did the full workup on every single patient. There is no way they could do this, a full workup takes between 5 and 7 hours (he said).
So what was happening? Someone at these offices had filled out the 'full workup' form for their EHRs and then discovered that they now literally had a button that would print money (paid out by insurance companies).
If you give someone a tool that lets them print money at the click of a button even if it means they didn't actually do all the tests to fill it in they are going to click it.
- Johnny555 9y agoDo you need EHR's to do this? Spending 30 minutes filling out paperwork documenting a fake 7 hours of work sounds like it's still profitable.
- hyperion2010 9y agoMost offices don't have someone with 30 minutes of their day to spare (per patient!), so if they are doing this they basically need someone dedicated to the fraud. Now it is 30 minute time cost up front and then they just select it from the dropdown box.