Re: NYT: "Medicare Billing Rises as Records Turn Electronic"
by Pam Co - I did see it-- thanks for posting it.
Again, as a mere coding student I'm hesitant to opine on whether this issue is a real problem or a perceived one--but I do wonder if the "cloning" isn't more of a problem than the potential "up-coding." You'd think that proper auditing would catch at least much or most of the up-coding, after which appropriate deterrents would be applied; but it wouldn't necessarily be easy to catch patient record "cloning," in the setting of boilerplate template language. I.e., if the records all look very similar anyway, in the absence of free-text usage.