| Subject: | CMS Releases Publication about the Advance Beneficiary Notice |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 - 06:00 am |
| CMS has recently released a publication titled What Physicians Need to Know About The Advanced Beneficiary Notice. An Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) is a written notice which a physician or supplier provides to a Medicare beneficiary in order to inform the beneficiary (before he or she receives specified items or services that otherwise might be paid for by Medicare) that Medicare probably will not pay for them for that particular beneficiary on that particular occasion. The ABN allows... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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