Am I Required to Bill Medicare? Understanding the Medicare Advanced Beneficiary Notice

Many practitioners are used to providing cash-pay services to clients when the practitioner is out of network or the insurance denies a particular service. However practitioners need to be careful with this practice when it comes to evaluating and treating Medicare beneficiaries. A Medicare beneficiary cannot be asked to pay for a service that may otherwise be covered by the Medicare program without obtaining a signed Advanced Beneficiary Notice of Non-Coverage (ABN) prior to performing the