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Payments => Insurance Payments => : bhgarrison January 21, 2010, 02:24:25 PM

: Medicare CoPay
: bhgarrison January 21, 2010, 02:24:25 PM

Can you collect a medicare copay before billing medicare for the service, or do you bill medicare, get paid, then bill the copay to the patient.

: Re: Medicare CoPay
: DMK January 21, 2010, 06:54:37 PM

You can do it either way.  If you know FOR SURE that they have no secondary or supplemental and if you know EXACTLY what the co-pay is for services performed, most patients will pay at time of service to avoid getting a bill. 

With chiropractic it's $4.96 (Adjust 1-2 areas) or $6.88 (Adjust 3-4 areas).  So for us it's simple to calculate.