Healthcare payers get a wide range of billing claims. Here are some of the most outrageous, rounded up by MultiPlan's payment integrity service:
1. Forty-nine hours of critical care time was billed for a single day.
2. A physical therapist reported the same services on every bill for every patient.
3. Over two months, a patient went to 10 hospitals for the same dislocated shoulder.
4. A bill showed a 4-year-old patient received smoking-cessation counseling.
5. A gastric restrictive lap band and a stomach removal were billed for a single patient.
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