Is the charting merely substandard? The attorney tells you she has a suspicion that the medical record has fraudulent charting. She thinks the medical documentation of healthcare providers may be incomplete, untimely, illegible, or incorrect. You know that substandard documentation may itself result in an untoward outcome for the patient and thus factor into a […]
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