RE: Medicare billing question

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If it’s a Medicare supplement than it’s supplemental to Medicare, meaning you bill Medicare 1st. Often these plans are set up for automatic crossover so you don’t need to do anything after that. Medicare then forwards it to the secondary plan for payment. It really gets confusing when there the patient is still working or has a working spouse and then you have to figure out who is primary and who is secondary and then the supplement and this is based on number of employees of the company. Kathy Saradarian, MDBranchville, NJwww.qualityfamilypractice.comSolo 4/03, Practicing since 9/90Practice Partner 5/03Low staffing From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Dannielle HarwoodSent: Monday, January 09, 2012 10:22 PMTo: Subject: Medicare billing question OK...so can someone please enlighten me regarding the billing of medicare supplement policies. Does the first bill for the visit go to medicare or to the (for example) Blue Cross Medicare Supplement F/J etc plan??. Blue cross is saying send everything to medicare.Thank you in advance for your help as I struggle through billing.Dannielle Harwood, MD