A rehabilitation counselor working for a managed care company is concerned about the limitations the company is placing on the treatment of the clients they are seeing

The next time this counselor sees a client, they place a more severe diagnosis in the clients chart in an attempt to obtain an increased number of counseling sessions. This behavior is unethical and is considered which of the following?
a. downcoding.
b. upcoding.
c. bartering.
d. underdiagnosing.


B

Counseling

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Counseling