CMS provides additional guidance on proper billing when the Medicare Secondary Payer Rules apply
Patient Access Weekly Advisor, April 18, 2012
Editor’s note: Judith Kares, JD, CPC, regulatory specialist for HCPro, Inc., is the author of this note.
In a recent Special Edition MLN Matters Article (SE1217), CMS reminded providers of their responsibilities under the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Rules. Under the MSP Rules, Medicare is secondary to certain other payers in the specific circumstance.
Continue reading Judith's note at the Medicare Mentor Blog
Related Products
-
HIPAA Privacy and Security: Coders, Billers, and the HIM Staff
This course explains the HIPAA privacy and security rules that are relevant to coders, billers, and the HIM staff. It also...
-
HIPAA Privacy and Security for Nurses and Clinical Staff
This course explains the HIPAA privacy and security rules that are relevant to nurses and other clinical staff. It also...
-
HIPAA Privacy and Security: Registration and Front Office Staff
This course explains the HIPAA privacy and security rules as applicable and relevant to the registration and front office...
-
HIPAA Privacy and Security: Nutrition, Environmental Services, & Volunteer Staff
This course explains the HIPAA privacy and security rules as applicable and relevant to nutrition, environmental services...
-
HIPAA Privacy and Security: Business Associates
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Suicide risk NPSG requirements clarified
- What to include on the incident report
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- Code diagnoses and outpatient treatment for PTSD
- ACGME revokes USC cardiovascular fellowship accreditation
- Know guidelines and subtle differences in code descriptions for laceration repairs
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- E-mailed
-
- ACGME revokes USC cardiovascular fellowship accreditation
- Suicide risk NPSG requirements clarified
- 4 Trends Nurse Leaders Are Facing
- Specificity key to neoplasm coding in ICD-10-CM
- Reimbursement for Facility and Professional Services in a Provider-Based Department by Gina M. Reese, Esq., RN
- Practice defensive charting
- Parkinson’s Tremors Vanish with Incisionless Surgery
- New malnutrition criteria could help ensure consistent coding
- Keyes Q&A: Securing gas cylinders, fire extinguishers, kitchens, door gaps
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- Searched
