In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager came to him and said “something weird is going on.” For weeks, the office manager told him, Wagner had been quietly underpaid by the insurance company Aetna on a seemingly random selection of higher level claims. “It’s blatantly disrespectful,” said Wagner, a family medicine doctor who has run a small practice in Hudson, Ohio, for the last 28 years. “It’s not like they came back to us sayi
'Guilty until proven innocent': Inside the fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding'

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