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Don't Let Patients Give You ABN Hassles

Published on Mon Aug 05, 2013

Question: We have a patient who came for a bone density scan we knew Medicare wasn’t likely going to cover because she just had one last year and we had her sign an advance beneficiary notice. As we suspected, her Medicare carrier did not pay for the service (77080) because the service is only covered once every two years. Now [...]
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