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by doormatt 247 days ago
>Wagner's office estimates he lost over $3,000 to downcoding in the first half of the year, but other doctors across the country have fared far worse.

That's...not a lot of money.

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Doctors are probably raising alarms over growing practice. It’s 3000 this year, but becomes 10000 next year and 50000 the year after.
Yep. Frog, boiling water, etc.

If they get away with it for a few offices and a little money, it just becomes how they do business and grows.