When a Patient Has No Symptoms of a Disease and the Provider

question 48

Multiple Choice

When a patient has no symptoms of a disease and the provider performs the tests for that disease at the patient's request, the provider has committed which of these fraudulent coding and billing practices?

• A) Reporting services that were not performed
• B) Reporting services at a higher level than was carried out
• C) Performing procedures not related to the patient's condition
• D) Billing separately for services that are bundled in a single procedure code
• E) Reporting the same service twice

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Definitions:

Collective Violence

Violent actions carried out by groups of individuals, often aimed at achieving a political, social, or economic objective.

Relative Deprivation

A feeling of dissatisfaction experienced by individuals who perceive themselves as worse off compared to others.

Berkowitz

Leonard Berkowitz is a social psychologist known for his research on aggression, including the development of the Cognitive Neoassociation Model of aggressive behavior.

Ethnocentrism

Evaluative preference for all aspects of our own group relative to other groups.