Industry Notes:
To Match Or Not To Match When Name Is Truncated
Published on Thu May 19, 2022
Don’t get stumped on what to do when a patient’s full name isn’t listed on their Medicare card. The problem: “Due to a character limit, some Medicare cards don’t display patients’ full names,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a recent MLN Connects newsletter. The solution: “According to section 10.2 of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter [...]