Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
Industry Notes:
Use MBI Tool to Review Deceased Patients' Information
Published on Fri Jan 24, 2020
Date of death factors into MBI accessibility. You can still pull up a patient’s Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) information, even if that patient has expired, says Part B Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA in a new post on its website. “Users may obtain an MBI as long as the Medicare beneficiary information entered is valid and the beneficiary’s date of death is less than 13 months prior to the date the MBI Lookup inquiry is performed,” Palmetto says. If the date of death is more than 13 months prior, you’ll “receive a message advising that the date of death exceeds the timely claim filing requirement. The MBI will not be returned,” the MAC informs providers.
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