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Michael Brady: Hello, and welcome back to Modern Healthcare s Beyond the Byline, where we offer behind-the-scenes look into our reporting. I m your host, Michael Brady. And I write about rules and regulations for Modern Healthcare. I m talking with our usual host, Alex Kacik, about his latest story on upcoding. So Alex, you reported on an inspector general report that found that hospitals are increasingly billing Medicare for the most complex treatment, even though data indicate that patients aren t getting any sicker. What did you make of the findings? Alex Kacik: Hey Mike, so the OIG s data resembles other research that I ve been reporting on for a couple of years now, and I thought those similarities were interesting. So the government watchdog agency found that the severity of stays that they re billing Medicare for is getting higher while the lower severity stays are getting lower. So that essentially means that you come in with a condition, maybe a respiratory condition, and y

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