Your Medicare patients should have received their Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) by now. This number replaces their social security number for privacy purposes. Your office MUST use this number on the claim form. Starting January 1, 2020, all providers must use the MBI when billing Medicare regardless of the date of service:
• We will reject claims submitted with Health Insurance Claim Numbers (HICNs) with a few exceptions
• We will reject all eligibility transactions submitted with HICNs
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The Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2019 (H.R. 3654) would allow Medicare beneficiaries access to the chiropractic profession’s broad-based, non-drug approach to pain management, which includes manual manipulation of the spine and extremities, evaluation and management services, diagnostic imaging and utilization of other non-drug approaches that have become an important strategy in national efforts to stem the epidemic of prescription opioid overuse and abuse.
H.R. 3654:
• Appropriately defines a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) as a “physician” in the Medicare program.
• Provides patient access to all Medicare-covered benefits allowable under a chiropractor’s state licensure.
• Requires that DCs complete a documentation webinar.
• Is bipartisan legislation, introduced by Reps. Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.) and Tom Reed (R-N.Y.).

Urge your Representative to co-sponsor H.R. 3654 and thank them for their support of Medicare patients and the chiropractic profession. We encourage you to urge patients, friends and family to contact their federal representative to change the current Medicare statute. ... See MoreSee Less

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