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04/27/2009

This chart examines denial rates for three primary care specialties - general practice, family practice and internal medicine - from 2005 to 2007. Denial rates are based on the total number of denied services divided by the total number of claims filed by each specialty.

04/27/2009

You're not required to list non-covered services on Medicare's new Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN), but experts say you're more likely to get payments from patients for services if you do.

04/27/2009

This week's question is answered by Sean Weiss CPC, vice president of DecisionHealth Professional Services. 

Q. One of our doctors sees a patient in a nursing home. When the patient was moved to an "assisted living facility" the doctor billed the visit as a new patient because the patient is in a new place of service. Is this correct?

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