Cms 1500 Research Paper

The first step is to pre-register the patient's insurance information into the computer system and making a copy of their insurance cards. The patient's insurance information would then be verified. The patient would then be seen by a medical professional to examine the patient, discuss any test results or provide a diagnosis. Once the patient is ready to check out any payment due would be collected. The medical coder would then go over the patients' medical record and assign any diagnosis codes or procedural codes and then a claim form (CMS 1500) would be completed and submitted. The payment would also receive and posted at this time and document in the patient's record. The CMS 1500 will information from the patient, including the type of

medical information, name, date of birth, address, phone number, sex, marital status and if they are employed or a student. If the patient is not the insurance beneficiary then the insured's information would also need to be listed. This would also include the same type of information, but from the insured, not the patient. The insurance name, group number and signature of the insured would also need to be provided. Also provided on the CMS 1500 would need to be listed the CPT codes and modifiers. As well as diagnosis pointer, charge amount and units. The physician's federal tax ID, social security number and service location would also need to be provided as