Thursday, January 17, 2008

Medical Billing Claim Forms

The medical billing and insurance process is always done using specific forms. Whenever a claim is issued to the insurance company during the medical billing process it is obvious that the insurance company must have all the related details about the patient's diagnosis, treatment and the different services that were provided by the health care people. All these details are entered by a professional medical /coder /into the claim forms.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). What is the CMS-1500? The CMS-1500 is the basic form prescribed by CMS for the Medicare program for claims from physicians and suppliers. Where do you get these forms? For a look at the source of these forms look at http://www.empiremedicare.com/partbny/1500/source.htm

Here is the CMS homepage http://www.cms.hhs.gov/

UB92 Hospital claim form is the American Medical Association approved format for filing claims. It is printed to government printing office standards with OCR ink for scanning.

A certificate of medical necessity (CMN) is required for Medicare reimbursement for different types of DME and supplies. CMN is also required for Medicare payments for home health services. For affordable and professional services in medical transcription, medical billing and coding contact OSI (Outsource Strategies International) the US based BPO pioneer.

1 comment:

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