Our physician does not see newborns in the hospital we strictly see newborns from 2 weeks and on.
We always bill the newborn under their own name, DOB and under the mothers insurance plan for the first 30 days (as long as she added them).
One mother states she added the child from birth but the insurance company shows the child was added two weeks after the DOB. They are not showing the child effective the first two weeks of life. The mother has called numerous times to have them change to the childs DOB as she originally registered but instead of adding the childs name to the plan from the DOB they want us to bill under the mothers name for the childs charges the first two weeks. Is this normal? I have seen this before but only if the child does not have a name.
Any insight on this would be awesome! If this is the norm would you bill under the mother w/ her DOB or the Childs as it seems they would deny due to pediatric codes on an adult.
We always bill the newborn under their own name, DOB and under the mothers insurance plan for the first 30 days (as long as she added them).
One mother states she added the child from birth but the insurance company shows the child was added two weeks after the DOB. They are not showing the child effective the first two weeks of life. The mother has called numerous times to have them change to the childs DOB as she originally registered but instead of adding the childs name to the plan from the DOB they want us to bill under the mothers name for the childs charges the first two weeks. Is this normal? I have seen this before but only if the child does not have a name.
Any insight on this would be awesome! If this is the norm would you bill under the mother w/ her DOB or the Childs as it seems they would deny due to pediatric codes on an adult.