What types of audits are there? Describe the goal of each


Internal audits -- the company audits claims practices against their policies and procedures to ensure accuracy in billing.
External audits -- the company hires another company to conduct an audit of their claims processing.
Payer audits -- the insurance company does an audit to determine if the coding on claims is accurate and what the error rate is.
OIG -- this is an investigation that may include auditing techniques.

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