Practice Management Alert
ABN Basics
Published on Sat Jun 01, 2002
Medicare requires that physicians give beneficiaries an advance beneficiary notice (ABN) to read and sign when they believe Medicare may not cover a service they are about to provide or Medicare considers it "medically unnecessary."
The ABN must specify the service or procedure that may not be covered by Medicare. $ $ $
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