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billing medicare ky after pt has died

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Michele:
I was told by my Medicare once that even if the patient is deceased, not to put the date of death on the claim.  She said it messes up the processing.

Michele

PMRNC:
This goes to show you that it sometimes comes down to who you talk to on the phone. Procedure says that if you know the date of death it should be on the claim.
When I was a claims examiner the only thing that date in that field did was scan for services on or after it to make sure there were no claims for after the death, that's all that field is for. Most times the system didn't even know that date was there UNLESS it cross referenced a claim in the system for After the deceased date.
But again, I'm not going to guess because we don't really know the denial reason from the carrier.

rdmoore2003:
why exactly do you think you have rejections if you have not received the eob?

sherry27:
Thank you guys so much for your replies. I haven't had a rejection on these that I am billing right now. When I said "I think I got a rejection before on this" This was several years back, but I remember it was something to do with the date of death. I'm keeping my fingers crossed this goes through the first time. It is so nice having people to go to ask  these questions. Thank you Michelle and Alice for this forum ;D

dawn:
make sure they have the correct dod listed on the Medicare site, I've had rejections for this and had to send them a death cert. to prove dod.
Also was you Doctor treating for the same reason of death? EX: if your Doctor was treating the patient for a bed sore, but the patient expired from cancer...you can add a GW modifier to your claim to show that the diagnosis is not related to the reason for death

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