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Health economics

the practice of assigning patients to more lucrative billing codes than their condition warrants to raise reimbursement.

In health economics, upcoding refers to the practice of assigning patients to more lucrative billing codes than their condition warrants to raise reimbursement. This meaning comes from Silverman (2004) in Journal of Health Economics.[1]

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Silverman, E., & Skinner, J. (2004). Medicare upcoding and hospital ownership. Journal of Health Economics, 23(2), 369-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2003.09.007

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