CMS is notifying health care providers and suppliers that it has updated its Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage, or ABN form and made the revised form and information on how to use it available online.
Use of the revised ABN, which is issued to patients by physicians and other health care professionals, "in situations where Medicare payment is expected to be denied," will become mandatory on November 1, 2011. At that time, the old ABN form will be considered invalid, by CMS.
Using the appropriate ABN form is critical to physicians getting paid, physicians would be well advised to start using the revised form before the deadline.
Physicians need to check the lower left hand corner of the document for the words "Form CMS-R-131" and the revised date "03/11" to ensure that they have the revised form in hand.
Practices must have a current and properly executed ABN, because if Medicare denies the services, the physician can't go back and collect payment from the patient.
http://www.cms.gov/BNI/02_ABN.asp
Using the appropriate ABN form is critical to physicians getting paid, physicians would be well advised to start using the revised form before the deadline.
Physicians need to check the lower left hand corner of the document for the words "Form CMS-R-131" and the revised date "03/11" to ensure that they have the revised form in hand.
Practices must have a current and properly executed ABN, because if Medicare denies the services, the physician can't go back and collect payment from the patient.
http://www.cms.gov/BNI/02_ABN.asp
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