A coding compliance program ensures that the assignment of codes to diagnoses, procedures, and services follows established coding guidelines, and health care organizations write policies and procedures to assist in implementing the coding compliance stages of __________

a. detection, correction, prevention, verification, and comparison
b. portability, continuity, and combating waste, fraud, and abuse
c. legibility, completeness, clarify, consistency, and precision
d. unbundling, upcoding, overcoding, jamming, and downcoding


a

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