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Follow These ABN Best Practices When Dispensing Deluxe Frames

Published on Mon Jul 19, 2021

If your patient is likely to qualify for a free pair of glasses or contacts following cataract surgery, but they opt to get deluxe frames or progressive lenses instead, they will be responsible for the overage between the standard glasses and the deluxe version. In this case, you should ask the patient to sign an advance beneficiary notice (ABN) to [...]
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