Sources of Billing Errors Detailed in Report

Out of hundreds of thousands of workers’ compensation bills audited, about 35% contained some type of billing error, according to a quarterly trends report from Mitchell International. Among the causes of the billing errors is inappropriate coding, which produced 24% of the mistakes. Another error is unbundling of multiple procedures that should have been covered by one comprehensive code, which accounted for 19% of billing mistakes. “Processing a bill requires many different people, and the potential for errors increases every time a new person or organization is added...