Medical Bill Review

Success Stories – Hospital Trauma Fees Under Scrutiny

By |2019-10-08T20:19:06+00:00October 8th, 2019|Categories: Business, Claims Review, Medical Bill Review, Medical Billing Errors|Tags: , , |

Hospital Trauma Fees Are Under Scrutiny Our expert medical bill reviewer and clinical analyst recently identified a case where the application of a trauma activation fee was seriously questionable. Hospital trauma fees are under scrutiny across the country in general. Hospitals charge patients a trauma activation fee when they arrive by ambulance with a [...]

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Success Stories – Duplicated Blood Work

By |2019-07-30T15:15:48+00:00July 30th, 2019|Categories: Business, Claims Review, Medical Bill Review, Medical Billing Errors|Tags: , |

Duplicated Blood Work Sometimes in the course of a review, our coders are sent additional records from the hospital. Very often, charges for blood work are duplicated. When these go unreviewed, it means payors are charged twice for a single episode of blood work. In on specific case, our reviewer found 95 duplicate items totaling [...]

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Success Stories – Irregular Pricing

By |2019-07-10T16:11:50+00:00July 10th, 2019|Categories: Business, Claims Review, Medical Bill Review, Medical Billing Errors|Tags: |

30 irregularly priced items! Our coding experts recently reviewed a claim and found 30 irregularly priced items. This occurs when different prices are applied to the same quantity of an item ad different points on a claim. For example, the claim under review listed CEFEPIME PER 500 MG at $106 which is the normal [...]

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Success Stories – Global Inconsistent Pricing Codes

By |2019-05-30T15:43:28+00:00May 30th, 2019|Categories: Business, Claims Review, Medical Bill Review, Medical Billing Errors|Tags: |

Another story of the dollar impact of inconsistent pricing. For today's Success Story we will be digging into some inconsistent pricing for just the medications on a large claim totaling $ 274,301.50.  In the example below, you will see one of the categories under the global explanation codes we use at Hopewell as a [...]

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Success Stories – Inconsistent Pricing Adds Up

By |2019-03-28T12:50:12+00:00March 28th, 2019|Categories: Business, Claims Review, Medical Bill Review|Tags: |

Small errors and inconsistencies can add up. In February one of our experts spotted pricing inconsistencies on a claim. Several injections were listed with different prices. The first Fluconazole Injection per 200 mg quantity of 2 was charged at $ 42.00. On four subsequent lines a quantity of 2 was charged at $ 54.00. [...]

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Success Story – Anesthesia

By |2019-01-22T16:33:50+00:00January 22nd, 2019|Categories: Business, Claims Review, Medical Bill Review, Medical Billing Errors|Tags: , |

During open heart surgery, it is the standard of care that the Anesthesiologist does blood gases to check the saturation of oxygen in the tissues. He starts an arterial line to draw blood gasses and labs during the surgery. This is a one time arterial puncture to float the arterial catheter in place. He draws [...]

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Success Stories – Coding Errors

By |2018-11-13T21:14:25+00:00October 13th, 2018|Categories: Business, Claims Review, Medical Bill Review|Tags: |

Coding Errors In a recent example of coding errors, a patient was charged with Piperacillin 3.75 grams at quantity 9 times a day for 4 days during an inpatient stay. This would be and overdose of 22 grams! The normal dosing is every 6 to 8 hour every 24-hour period, not 9 times a [...]

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Success Stories – Bill Review

By |2018-11-12T21:44:16+00:00September 25th, 2018|Categories: Business, Corporate, Medical Bill Review, Uncategorized|Tags: |

One of our medical bill verification experts, Maureen Callahan, recently caught some billing errors that could have easily been missed in a standard review. There were therapy charges on a facility (hospital) where the hospital billing department charged $278.00 for a 15 minute increment just for the therapist walking in the patient’s room.  After reverification of [...]

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Fighting Fraud and Abuse

By |2018-08-17T13:39:22+00:00May 17th, 2018|Categories: Business, Claims Review, Corporate, Medical Bill Review|Tags: , , , |

An Insider’s View: Fighting Fraud and Abuse and Protecting Patients People fighting fraud and abuse in the medical reimbursement system have a tough job. It is like an iceberg, where what appears to be a small and harmless chunk of ice, hides a mammoth problem just below the surface. Finding these problems makes me [...]

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$1.6 Million Dollar Savings for Catastrophically Ill Patient

By |2018-02-16T15:51:02+00:00February 16th, 2018|Categories: Business, Claims Review, Medical Bill Review, Medical Billing Errors|Tags: , , , , , |

Hopewell Risk Strategies Announces $1.6 Million Dollar Savings for Catastrophically Ill Patient Houston, TX - February 16, 2018 – Hopewell Risk Strategies (formerly Moody Review), part of the Hopewell Group family of companies, is proud to announce its recent success in saving over $1.6 million for its client and reinsurance partners for a single, [...]

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