Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
Industry Note:
Yes, You Can Translate Your Own Handwriting for MAC Review
Published on Wed Jan 20, 2016
When Medicare payers come calling for your documentation to support claims, you may be faced with a dilemma — submit illegible records that the MAC may not be able to read, or send nothing and expect to have to pay back all the money you collected for the services. Fortunately, one Part B MAC has a third option.
“If a provider feels that his/her notes may not be legible, he/she may translate these notes prior to submitting them to Palmetto GBA for review,” the MAC said in a Nov. 25, 2015 tip on its website. “The note must be translated verbatim and signed by the provider.” You must then submit both sets of notes — the illegible and the translated version — to the payer for review.
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