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Medicare hopes benefits checkable in real time by year's end

Physician Practice Advisor, July 6, 2005

A system is in the works that may allow physicians and practitioners to check a patient's eligibility for benefits in real time by year's end, according to Government Health IT.

CMS is already testing real-time automated transactions it hopes will be ready for use by hospitals and others by September, with plans for a Web-based system coming online shortly thereafter, said Medicare officials.

Also in the works is a Web system that will allow people to check the status of Medicare claims and determine when a claim payment is deposited into bank accounts.

The status of these systems was announced by Karen Trudel, deputy director of the Office of E-Health Standards and Services at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), at a recent Department of Health and Human Services advisory committee meeting.

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