Medicare Billing Help!

$80.00

Need Medicare billing help? There are no dumb questions when dealing with Medicare!

Medicare is intimidating, but billing Medicare is actually easier than private insurance (in some ways). And in other ways, it’s not harder – just different. It’s a foreign country where you don’t speak the language.

You don’t know what you don’t know – so get Medicare billing help, in an entertaining, engaging, and “let’s keep it real” manner.

You CAN be successful in billing Medicare!

Version Date: June 14, 2024

Correction to slide 50:  the “timely filing” deadline for reopenings is 1 year, not 120 days.

Counselors, psychologists, social workers, marriage/family therapists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and psychiatrists need help to bill both Medicare and Medicare “Advantage” (commercial Medicare plans).  This webinar provides everything you need to get started and be successful!

Here are straightforward answers. You don’t have to become a Medicare geek – but this webinar will help you bill successfully, and avoid costly mistakes. Plus lots of useful handouts and links to resources!

  • Parts of Medicare
  • Verifying eligibility: how do you do it? how do you interpret it?
  • Determining whether your client really has Medicare Advantage (MA)
  • What is Railroad Medicare?
  • Weird statuses and acronyms: MSP, QMB, Dual-eligible…say what?
  • Medicare benefits
  • Billing the next payer – I have good news for you here!
  • Differences between secondary and supplemental plans
  • How to tell at a glance what a supplemental plan will cover! Yes…it really can be done!
  • Setting up your billing system for Medicare
  • Electronic data interchange (EDI) enrollment (what the heck is this?)
  • Common billing errors and how to avoid them
  • What is that darn sequester thing?
  • How do I know how much to collect from my client?
  • Can’t I just hand them a superbill?
  • How to read the Medicare standard paper remittance (EOB).
  • Medicare billing help with the EOB: what do all those codes mean? Where can I find them?
  • Should you enroll with your Medicare Administrative Contractor’s portal?
  • If you have a problem, what now? Reopenings & Redeterminations. What are they, and which to use?
  • What happens when you’re out of network with Advantage?
  • Do you want to be in-network with Advantage plans? (the answer may surprise you…)
  • Benefits under Medicare Advantage
  • Fees paid by Medicare Advantage
  • What are Medicare Advantage benefits? How is it different from Original Medicare?
  • Interacting with commercial Medicare payers. What’s your recourse if you run into problems?