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Manual: Home Care Corporate Compliance Manual (Ver 1) Department: HOME CARE
MCN’s customizable template, Accepting Assignment, is taken from our Home Care Corporate Compliance Manual. MCN Healthcare’s proven policy and procedure templates, competencies and compliance tools have assisted more than 20,000 health care organizations worldwide meet their regulatory compliance goals. MCN provides more than 80 health care specific policy and procedure manuals for Acute Care Hospitals, Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health, Home Health, Physician Practice, and Long Term Care. MCN’s policy and procedure manuals focus on the latest healthcare "hot topic" issues related to patient safety and prevention of medical healthcare errors. Here is some sample content from Accepting Assignment:
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The supplier accepts Medicare assignment and therefore will not charge Medicare beneficiaries more than the amounts allowed under the Medicare fee schedule, including coinsurance and deductibles.
Medicare patients are charged only the allowable coinsurance amount under the fee schedule.
Reimbursement amounts received from the payor are checked against the amount paid by the patient.
Excess payments by the patient are refunded to the patient within business days.
SUBJECT:
ACCEPTING ASSIGNMENT
REFERENCE #2005
PAGE: 1
DEPARTMENT: HOME CARE
OF: 1
EFFECTIVE:
APPROVED BY: ... |
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| | ... including coinsurance and deductibles.
Medicare patients are charged only the allowable coinsurance amount under the fee schedule.
Reimbursement amounts received from the payor are checked against the amount paid by the patient.
Excess payments by the patient are refunded to the patient within business days.
SUBJECT:
ACCEPTING ASSIGNMENT
REFERENCE #2005
PAGE: 1
DEPARTMENT: HOME CARE
OF: 1
EFFECTIVE:
APPROVED BY:
REVISED: ... |
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