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Urine drug testing settlements signal suspicious CPT coding, billing patterns

State and federal prosecutors continue to extract sizable settlements from practices that allegedly submitted fraudulent claims for one type of service—urine drug tests (UDT). In this article, Julia Kyles, CPC, breaks down fraudulent coding and billing patterns for UDT services.

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