Were those surveys performed before or after the patient received the bill?

Getting billed for a "dietary consult" because your doctor may have asked you what you had for lunch due to the coding intensity of these scribes is asinine.

> Were those surveys performed before or after the patient received the bill?

In America this doesn't matter, everyone's bills are insane.

> Getting billed for a "dietary consult" because your doctor may have asked you what you had for lunch due to the coding intensity of these scribes is asinine.

For what we do it's also illegal. We can only charge for services the patient consents to, and we're obligated through federal and state regulations to provide transparent pricing and estimates, so we couldn't do surprise billing if we wanted to. not that we do! We actually find it better to avoid trying to capture every single procedure code like that because it drives up rejections and thus collection costs. We'd rather bill and collect the straight procedure with no bullshit.

No, the transcript will never result in a bill that is different than the service the provider rendered.