Re: Billing question

[carol maher]

I don't believe that you can bill for those days since you did not give the resident the letter notifying him that Medicare payment ended.  I will be interested in hearing what others have to say on this topic. ----- Original Message ----- From: MDS Lady To: MDS Group Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 3:08 PM Subject: Billing question I need some help from the billers on the group.   Scenario......   Resident admitted Medicare A 2/2 showing 60 days available and on 5/6 you discover the resident only had 28 days and exhausted benefits on 2/29......can you go back and bill the secondary payer....be it Medicaid or private pay... for 3/1-5/6?   Please include your source reference.   Thx in advance! Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs