A quick note to you to help you with your claims processing as you finish up this holiday week: Stop handwriting on claim forms!
For years I have been teaching and telling people to avoid writing on CMS 1500
forms. Any time we handwrite on a claim form we are not only stopping the electronic processing of claims (i.e. delaying the claims processing and payments) we are also relying on someone else to read and interpret our handwriting! Not always an easy thing for the reader, agreed?
Well…this past week, NGS, one of the local Medicare carriers sent out notification that as of July 1, 2017 they will
no longer accept any claims that have handwriting on them! The claims will be returned to you.
As you know, what Medicare does, others will follow.
So my advice to you…stop writing on claim forms. Use your software to insert remarks on the claim form and/or use the carrier portal to import the claim directly. There are also PDF forms that you can use to complete claim forms.
To
learn more click
here.