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Interested in Treating Family Members? Check This Reimbursement Advice

Published on Fri Oct 18, 2019

Tip: Medicare excludes family member treatment from payments. If your eye care physician treats a family member, you may be wondering what happens from a billing perspective — after all, performing your mother’s cataract excision takes time and effort, and you might expect to bill Medicare for it. However, before you send that claim to your MAC, find out what [...]
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