Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
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This Patient Responsibility Form Can Make Your Life Easier
Published on Tue Jun 19, 2012
For non-Medicare patients, use this form as a springboard to creating your own custom document. If you aren't having your non-Medicare patients sign a form saying they're responsible for paying on services or procedures that you know their insurance won't cover, you're leaving money on the table. Avoid lost reimbursement with a form like this one from Barbara J. Cobuzzi, MBA, CPC, CENTC, CPCH, CPC-P, CPC-I, CHCC, president of CRN Healthcare Solutions, a consulting firm in Tinton Falls, N.J.
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