345 Substandard Charting or Fraudulent Charting
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Is the charting merely substandard? The attorney tells you she has a suspicion that the medical record has fraudulent charting. She thinks the medical charting 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 medical negligence suit. However, what makes it substandard is that it is due to a reason other than a desire deliberately to destroy, suppress, or otherwise tamper with medical records. In other words, it is the motive behind the charting that counts.
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Listen in as Pat Iyer chats about these points
- Is incomplete charting substandard charting or fraudulent charting?
- What causes untimely charting
- Illegible handwriting, the most expensive and difficult to defend lawsuits
- What does suspicious charting look like?
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Pat Iyer has been a legal nurse consultant since 1987. She also built a successful LNC business that included testifying as an expert witness for 20 years. Pat has written or edited 48 of her own books.