Medical Billing Forum

Billing => Billing => : shortcake517 February 26, 2010, 12:22:32 PM

: Box 33
: shortcake517 February 26, 2010, 12:22:32 PM

Hello!
I work for a new medical billing company and I have a couple of questions...Do we need a NPI number so that we can be in box 33? Currently the provider name is in box 33 and all the EOBs go directly to the provider. Is there a way I can change this so we process the EOBs first?

: Re: Box 33
: Pay_My_Claims February 26, 2010, 04:02:43 PM

MEDICAL BILLING COMPANIES DON'T NEED AN NPI....

: Re: Box 33
: Michele February 27, 2010, 12:03:49 AM

Charlene is right, no NPI's for billing services.  If you want eobs to go directly to you (and provider agrees) you must change the correspondence/pay to address with all carriers.

Michele

: Re: Box 33
: PMRNC February 27, 2010, 04:17:35 PM

You need a lock box (cannot reassign Medicare pmts) and unless you have a surety bond it's not a good idea to have checks go to you. You should talk with the bank on lock box procedures.

: Re: Box 33
: Priyan April 21, 2010, 10:03:03 AM

Exactly, you should first create a Lock box.

additionally, for most major insurance have turned to EFT's, fund will be directed to account and remits will be updated.

you can probably speak to your vendor to check whether they have contracts to get remits to upload in their site for your referrence