Archive for The Day of July 11th, 2006
Archive for the Day of July 11th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of July 11th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during July 11th, 2006.
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Medicare No Longer Filling in Blank Forms
Previously, when claims came in with incorrect ICD-9 medical billing, the Medicare carriers would make the proper corrections and then reimburse. They would correct diagnosis codes and fill in the blanks if they were empty. This was lazy medical billing on the part of the provider. Now Medicare personnel will no longer do that. They now require correct medical billing in order to reimburse for Medicare part B services. If a claim is sent in by a diagnostic center, this center must use the diagnosis code given by the referring physician for medical billing. If, for some reason, the physician does not provide a diagnosis, the personnel at the diagnostic …
Don’t Use Social Security Numbers for Patient Identification
Personal identification numbers have been a big issue in medical billing in the current years. In the past, the use of social security numbers to identify patients in medical billing was completely acceptable. As a matter of fact, this was the norm. Now, with the increased risk of identity theft, the use of social security numbers in medical billing is taboo. An eye opening experience happened in Colorado there was an unfortunate incident with member identification numbers used for medical billing. Kaiser Permanente Colorado made a human error and put the user identification numbers on the mailing label of a member magazine. This meant that anyone handling the magazine had …
