title: Medical Billing Horror Stories
author:  Sharon Hollander 
description: This book will provide a true insight into what is going on with physicians and the healthcare system in the US. It was written to educate and provide practical steps needed to avoid a Medicare audit, and or scrutiny from the array of regulators that oversee physicians in their billing practices.
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  Sue Grafton
  
  (A Kinsey Millhone Mystery)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
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  The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated
  means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge. Not that I
  practice law, but I am usually smart enough to avoid having to donate my
  services. In this case, my client was in a coma, which made billing a trick.
  Of course, you might look at the situation from another point of view. Once in
  a while a piece of old business surfaces, some item on life's agenda you
  thought you'd dealt with years ago. Suddenly, it's there again at the top of
  the page, competing for your attention despite the fact that you're completely
  unprepared for it.
  
  First there was a phone call from a stranger; then a letter showed up fourteen
  years after it was sent. That's how I learned I'd made a serious error in
  judgment and ended up risking my life in my attempt to correct for it.
  
  I'd just finished a big job, and I was not only exhausted but