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Use ABNs When Necessary, or Trouble Could Be Coming

Published on Tue Aug 06, 2019

Failure to secure ABN could lead to your practice footing patient bill. When you’re treating Medicare patients, you need to be up on all the rules all the time. That includes knowing what to do when Medicare might not pay for some or all of a patient’s services. The answer: Use advance beneficiary notices (ABNs) — written notices a provider [...]
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