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General Surgery Coding Alert

ABNs:

Salvage Your Pay for Uncovered Procedures

Published on Wed Apr 13, 2016

Signature means you can bill beneficiary. Master the appropriate use of advance beneficiary notifications (ABNs), and you can safeguard your general surgeons’ pay for services your insurance contractors won’t cover. Medicare isn’t the only payer requiring ABNs these days, so knowing when and how to obtain patient-payment responsibility agreements is critical to your surgery practice’s bottom line. Get in line [...]
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