Psychiatric News July 16, 2004
Volume 39 Number 14
© 2004 American Psychiatric Association
p. 21
Psychiatric Practice & Managed Care
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Don't Forget Box 32
Beginning April 1, there was a new rule for filling out the CMS-1500 form
for Medicare Claims. Although box 32 says you are to fill it out with
"Name and address of facility where services were rendered (if other
than home or office)," in fact, unless you performed the service at the
patient's home, you are required to write in your office's physical address
(Post Office boxes won't do) even though CMS already has it. Just writing in
"doctor's office" will no longer suffice. Psychiatrists have been
calling the Managed Care Help Line to report that claims are being rejected
because the office address was not listed in box 32. If you get a claim back
and don't know what is wrong with it, check to make sure box 32 has an address
in it. 
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