tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 5

PATIENT EDUCATION: Clear, Correct Answers To Patients' Medicare Questions

Conquer confusion about assignment, copayments and ABNs Let's face it: Medicare is so complicated we sometimes feel that both our patients and we need PhDs to figure it out. Now you can move to the head of the class with these answers to your patients' most common Medicare questions. Q. If your practice accepts assignment, why do I have to pay anything? A. If a provider accepts assignment, that means it agrees to accept the Medicare payment amount for a particular item or service as its payment in full. But the patient must still pay the copayment, plus any...

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