CodeMap® Briefing: 07/17/2024

Editor's Welcome: Understanding Advanced Beneficiary Notices is important for all those who work with Medicare patients. Today our friends at Laboratory Economics discuss the importance of an ABN. As always, please send us your comments, suggestions, and questions via email.

Compliance 101: Providing an Advanced Beneficiary Notice

All healthcare providers, including clinical and anatomic pathology laboratories, are required to provide a Medicare patient an Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) in situations where Medicare payment is expected to be denied. For example, advance notice is required if the service may be denied as no....

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