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Unbundling
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Exploding
The practice of expanding into individual units a group of diagnostic or procedural test codes—based on the 4th edition of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding promulgated by the American Medical Association—that might have been previously included as a ‘panel’, to maximise reimbursement from third party payers

unbundling
Exploding Medicare reimbursement A fraudulent practice in which provider services–eg, blood or chemistry panels are broken down to their individual components, resulting in a higher payment by Medicare. See Fraud, HIPA Act, Rebundling, Upcoding.


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Oftel, the industry telecoms watchdog, has told BT that it must pay compensation to other telcoms companies if it does not unbundle local loops within a previously agreed time.
Most of Western European countries started to unbundle the local loop in 2000-2001.
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