Heal 360's $20 million settlement over swabs billed as full office visits shows how scribe and template notes can expose any practice.
Blog|Articles|July 17, 2026
The summer coding errors that quietly cost practices money
Author(s)Keith A. Reynolds
Fact checked by: Chris Mazzolini, A.C. Baltz
Heat, ticks and fireworks reshape the summer case mix. Why ICD-10 denials pile up on visits where the medicine was never in doubt.
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Heat illness is filling more emergency rooms than it used to, and the paperwork behind those visits is where practices lose money. During the 2023 warm season, heat-related illness accounted for a larger share of emergency room visits than in the five prior years,
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