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--- Quote ---Uhmmmm it will be going to Medicare if Medicare requests a copy!   Huh  It never amazes me how some providers don't quite connect everything.  I hope I don't seem like I'm putting them down.  I had one once very similar to this.  VERY NICE MAN, but I just couldn't explain things to him.  He made all patients sign an ABN, whether they had Medicare or not, whether they got uncovered services or not, even if they came in to use his bathroom!  He asked me the same question over and over no matter how many times I explained things to him.  "How many Medicare claims can you send in together?"  My answer "There is no number, you submit however many claims you need to submit."  (He had back billing.)  After the hundred millionth time - my answer "23, not 24, not 25, only 23 claims are allowed at a time."
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ha ha.. there's not enough room in this forum to even tell you how many of these I've had.. LOL It just does NOT surprise me anymore. A few years ago I decided that from here on out ..they get ONE explanation.. and I will even throw in a source..but if they ask me to "PROVE" it anymore after that, I tell them.. Listen you hired me, let me do my job and if you don't agree, we can call the whole thing off.  I hate provider's that tell you to PROVE it.  I had one that could NOT comprehend he could not discount copay's ..the way he was doing it before I took over was just not even entering them, telling the patient's he won't make them pay as long as they kept their next scheduled appt!  ??? ??? After explaining this to him a few times I literally left his office, went home and wrote him a termination letter, sent it certified, and just washed my hands of him. When he got the letter to which it just said "Please refer to Paragraph 4 in subpart a of our contract...  '' he called me and said "Well I didn't know it was ILLEGAL, I just thought you didn't want me to waive them"   I did.. HANG UP THE PHONE!  <BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL>

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