Seeing Medicare Patients as a Cash-Based Practice The essence of a cash-based practice is collecting most, if not all, payments across the front counter vs. waiting for payment from a third-party payer. Many providers find themselves on the wrong side of the rules by creating various permutations of this concept, sometimes without even knowing they…
Billing Medicare Advantage
Important Facts about MA Plans Although a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan is technically a form of Medicare coverage, it is best to view these plans similarly to your contracted commercial payers. Advantage Plans often follow the same billing rules as regular commercial carriers. If you are a contracted provider for the plan the patient belongs…