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What's the Writeoff Policy With Secondary Payers?

Published on Fri May 10, 2019

Question: Thank you for your Q&A about patient writeoffs last month. I have a follow-up question. We have many patients with secondary insurance, some of whom have deductibles on the secondary. In these cases, should we write off the amount of the deductible because it’s secondary, or do we bill the patient? Codify Subscriber Answer: Most practices do bill the [...]
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