What is an ABN?
Published on Wed Sep 13, 2017
The ABN (Advance Beneficiary Notice) is the medical equivalent of those product disclaimers you hear at the very end of commercials. It’s a CMS-mandated waiver form that you have a patient sign when there’s a possibility that Medicare won’t reimburse the procedure or item you’re about to provide to them. That could cover services that are: Not deemed medically necessary. [...]