Former director of the dermatology service at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, Paulo Filipe, revealed on Wednesday that an audit conducted on the service he led found no "serious coding errors" in surgeries performed under the additional production scheme. In fact, 99.5% of all surgeries under this regime were "correctly coded," he stated. However, these figures are set to be reviewed by the General Inspectorate of Health Activities (IGAS) as part of its audits on surgical production.
Filipe emphasized that he was unaware of the amounts teams earned from additional surgical production, describing his role as merely an "intermediate leadership." He also mentioned that the doctor who earned over 50,000 euros in a single Saturday from surgeries under this regime might have only coded the service himself "in an initial phase."
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