Medical Billing Forum
Billing => Billing => : pvtbiller December 30, 2011, 10:43:24 AM
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Hello - Does a signature have to be in box 31? If it is a DME supplier billing on the patients behald, is a computer printed name of the company (supplier) with the date acceptable?
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When we bill box 31 never has an actual signature, it just has the typed name of our provider.
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Thanks so much
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just to clarify: For all auditing purposes the provider's signature should be on all encounters.
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Even if it prints the dme company and not an induviduals name? who should sign it then?
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I believe she's referring to the patients paperwork/chart. Not box 31 on the CMS form.
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no, on the cms form
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I'm confused....as long as the name itself is printed in box 31, the claim is fine. An actual cursive signature does not have to be in box 31
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I was just clarifying that although the "signature on file" is accepted on the claim, source documents such as the encounter must have the provider's signature.
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thank you
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So just to summarize, original signature must be on source document, but not in box 31. ;)