How does a home vigour aide bill for Medicare?
Answers: You can't bill for Medicare as an independent contractor home robustness aide. Medicare has awfully strict rules and guidelines that must be met, including complaince issues, educational issues, license, etc.. The only mode you can care for Medicare patients is through an agency that have been licensed to serve Medicare patients. Regular medical insurance companies will not usually recompense for independent contractor home health aides any.
Depending on what state you live in, you can bill for Medicaid patients as an Independent Contractor. In Ohio in that is an Ohio Home Care program that uses Independent aides, nurses, etc.. Your Department of Job and Family Services, or the Social Services agency for your state will have information. It is a State policy agency so you will have to look up you State parliament phone numbers.
You can also bill private pay patients as an Independent Contractor. Some Long Term Care insurance companies will settle for independent contractor aides also. In that case, the lenient would have to database the claim to their insurance company.
Call up 800# for Medicare, tell them you're a home form aide & want to be a Medicare provider. Ask for Medicare provider #; reimbursement rate; forms needed; codes you have to use; procedure codes. Ask them to distribute you the info on "suffixes-not sure it applies to you & if they have index of codes for 2ndary insurance cos.
Good luck
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