The company looked into the matter and discovered that the patient's doctor had submitted the claim nine times but used the wrong code without correcting it.

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Code it wrong and they dock you!

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However, keep in mind many code scanners don't tell you specifically what's wrong, in plain English.

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Whether he was right or wrong, he was demonstrating an impulse that is embedded into the DNA code of almost every political player and observer I know: the desire to figure out what other campaign year the current one is like.

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Heck, it'll let you clear the code through your phone once you've remedied whatever has gone wrong.

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If a single code is used multiple times or multiple codes are used in the wrong order, all transactions on a card can be blocked.

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It would be quite wrong if fictional writers were to have their writings pored over in the way The Da Vinci Code has been pored over in this case by authors of pretend historical books to make an allegation of infringement of copyright.

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