Industry Note:
CMS: Stop Balance Billing QMB Patients
Published on Fri Feb 19, 2016
If you see qualified Medicare beneficiaries (QMBs) — those patients who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare — then you should remove the phrase “balance billing” from your vocabulary, at least for your QMB patients. That’s the word from a recent MLN Matters article on the subject. “Despite federal law, erroneous balance billing of QMB individuals persists,” the Centers [...]