Clip And Save: Add These 10 Patient Eligibility Tips to Your Wheelhouse
Don’t forget about Medicare Secondary Payer rules.
Pocket these tips to make patient insurance verification and eligibility determination a breeze.
Terry A. Fletcher, BS, CPC, CCC, CEMC, SCP-CA, ACS-CA, CCS-P, CCS, CMSCS, CMC, QMGC, QMCRC, QMPM, a healthcare coding and billing consultant based in Laguna Beach, California, suggests the following best practices.
Check to see whether the plan is active. This is especially important now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has gone through so many changes; a lot of the private plans available through the healthcare marketplace aren’t necessarily valid or active at this point, Fletcher...
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