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The patient self-determination act requires all hospitals that receive medicare and medicaid funding to?
document whether a patient has an advance medical directive.
Can a Medicare participating hospital refuse a needed surgery on a Medicare patient?
Providers are not required to take Medicare (or Medicaid) patients. Hospitals are required to provide emergency care regardless of ability to pay.
Can a patient have medicare and medicare advantage?
No, a patient cannot have both Original Medicare and a Medicare Advantage plan simultaneously. Medicare Advantage plans are an alternative to Original Medicare, and when a patient enrolls in a Medicare Advantage plan, they effectively replace their Original Medicare coverage with that plan. However, patients may have supplemental plans, such as Medigap, alongside Original Medicare, but not with a Medicare Advantage plan.
Can a Medicare patient elect not to use Medicare?
if you are enrolled in it no, you can decline to enroll on medicare
Is there a law that a chiropractor cannot do spinal manipulation on a Medicare patient even if the patient is paying for the visit and not claiming it through Medicare?
Medicare law does not prohibit this.
If a patient has medicare primary and medicaid secondary what payment is the patient responsible for?
WHEN MEDICARE IS PRIMARY, THE PATIENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SECONDARY COPAY.
As part of the Medicare Patient Bill of Rights Medicare patients have the right to be treated fairly with courtesy and?
As part of the Medicare Patient Bill of Rights, Medicare patients have the right to be treated fairly with courtesy and ________________________
Will Medicare pay for treadmill if patient is disabled?
Will Medicare pay for treadmill
Can a hospital refuse to treat you if you cannot pay the balance of your bill?
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), or Patient Anti-Dumping Act, requires hospitals that except federal funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to treat all seeking care from a hospital's emergency department in all states and territories of the United States. Hospitals can be fined $50,000 per violation. Hospitals with less than 100 beds can be fined $25,000 per violation.
What is shadow billing in medical billing?
Hospitals are reimbursed by Medicare for handling a high level of indigent patients and are also reimbursed for educating interns and residents. When a Medicare patient is covered by a Medicare Replacement Plan (HMO Insurance for medicare patients), the hospital can only get the extra reimbursement for indigent patients and educating intern and residents if they send Medicare a "shadow bill". Basically, it is a copy of the identical bill sent to the HMO which is submitted to Medicare only for the purpose for the extra payment.
Is it illegal for a provider to bill a Medicare patient for a bill when Medicare has not paid their share?
Yes
Patient has Medicare primary and medi cal secondary provider bills Medicare knowing Medicare contract is suspended or pending who then pays claim?
Once Medicare has "adjudicated" the bill, MediCal's payment will be based on their policy and the patient's eligibility on the date of service.
