Upcoding is a practice in which
A) A practitioner provides a service but bills for it using a code that is higher up on the code list than the code for the service that was actually provided
B) A practitioner codes for a service even though he or she did not provide any services on the day the service was billed
C) A service is coded incorrectly
D) A code that is reimbursed at a higher rate is used in place of a more accurate code
D
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