{"id":9073,"date":"2017-12-27T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9073"},"modified":"2017-12-27T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:09:14","slug":"some-doctors-still-billing-medicare-for-the-most-complicated-expensive-office-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9073","title":{"rendered":"Some Doctors Still Billing Medicare for the Most Complicated, Expensive Office Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones for ProPublica)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Tiempos Text', serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Thousands of times a year, Medicare patients file into\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.2s; color: #217ce3; text-transform: none; line-height: inherit; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Tiempos Text', serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgba(33, 124, 227, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/treatment\/doctors\/1275565442\">Dr. Mark Roberts<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Tiempos Text', serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u2019 family practice clinic in rural Evergreen, Alabama, for standard office visits. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/some-doctors-still-billing-medicare-for-the-most-complicated-expensive-office-visits\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6975\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo-300x58.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo.png 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. 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