Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
Reader Question:
Don't Bill No-Show Fee on Behalf of Others
Published on Tue Jun 19, 2012 
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No, the referring physician should not charge a no-show fee to the patient in he is not the doctor expecting to see the patient.Here's why:
A no-show fee is designed to capture some money for the lost time and resources the missed appointment took up and the referring physician would not have lost anything.Other Articles in this issue of
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