Posts Tagged ‘Patient Billing’

Billing Practices Questioned at Local Hospitals
Filed under: patient billing

From 2008 to 2010, they found Prime billed Medicare for 1030 cases of kwashiorkor. Prime's spokesperson denied accusations that the company's doctor's misdiagnosed Medicare patients. The spokesperson insisted that billing practices were accurate and in …
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Shift your focus: the new generation of dental billing
Filed under: patient billing

And by the way, you can now start billing some routine and special dental services to your patient's medical insurance. Hold on there, you say. How do I do that? The springboard to accomplish is there in front of you. This change in billing procedures …
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Special Report: Phantom firms bleed millions from Medicare
Filed under: patient billing

Using stolen patient information, they called WellPoint's customer service line. They pretended to be the patients, Lavelle says, and asked to change the patients' billing addresses to post office boxes. That way, the patients themselves wouldn't …
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Coding & Billing
Filed under: patient billing
Use modifier GA when you expect Medicare to deny a service as not medically necessary and when an appropriate and properly executed advanced beneficiary notice (ABN) has been obtained from the patient and is on file. ABNs cannot be used routinely … Read more on OutpatientSurgery.net

Transported EMS patients to be billed if covered by insurance
Filed under: patient billing
PATASKALA — West Licking Joint Fire District has adopted a plan to bill patients for emergency service runs. The fire board voted 3-2, with members Pat Sagar, Randy Foor and Doug Joseph voting for the measure and Larry Kretzmann and Sharon Temple … Read more on The Newark Advocate

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