What is considered a mandatory assignment under Medicare?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
Providers may accept or not accept Medicare assignment. However, there are some services that require acceptance of assignment. These include:
• Clinical diagnostic laboratory services
• Medicare patients who also are eligible for Medicaid
• Ambulatory surgery centers
• Method II home dialysis supplies and equipment
• Physician's assistants, nurse midwives, nurse specialists, non-physician anesthetists, clinical psychologists, and clinical social workers services
• All physicians, non-physician practitioners, and suppliers must take assignment on all claims for drugs and biologicals furnished to any patient enrolled in Medicare Part B.
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