When I read the below stmt I take it as you can bill for missed appts but we can't bill a BCBS client
$ 55.00 and a medicare client $70.11.
I hate that we bill for missed appts fee. I had to bill a client today $ 92.00 for her missed appt fee becuase she got suck at work and could not make her appt. But that is what the provider would have been paid if she made her appt.
CMS policy allows physicians, providers, and suppliers to charge Medicare beneficiaries for missed appointments, provided that they do not discriminate against Medicare beneficiaries but also charge non-Medicare patients for missed appointments and the charges for Medicare and non-Medicare patient are the same. The charge for a missed appointment is not a charge for a service itself (to which the assignment and limiting charge provisions
I have billed for 10 years, but now at the office I work at we have a biller that has taken a class and calls her self a bill. I think she is a data inputer not a biller. She will not bill secondary ins with out me getting very mad, has the office manager.
Thanks for listen to me tonight.