{"id":25,"date":"2008-04-06T18:49:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T23:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmaworks.com\/observations\/2008\/04\/06\/new-abn-form-coming-soon\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T23:49:21","slug":"new-abn-form-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/new-abn-form-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"New ABN Form Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><o:p><\/o:p>As some of you have already heard, Medicare has revised the ABN form that patients sign. [What is  the ABN form? From the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acatoday.com\/content_css.cfm?CID=2039\">American Chiropractic Association.]<\/a> <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The revised form, with a new title, <strong>\u201cAdvance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage,\u201d<\/strong> can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/BNI\/02_ABNGABNL.asp\">here<\/a>. <\/span> <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Although the use of this new ABN form is not mandatory until September 2008, you can start now if you know the rules, have the new ABN form, and implement it properly.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>So far, WPS Medicare (for Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota)<\/strong> has not mentioned the new form or implementation, but other states have already started the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Thanks to Bev for alerting us to this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you are aware of anything new about this form, or any insurance issues affecting chiropractic care that other offices might want to know, please feel free to post a notice here or email us at pma@pmaworks.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you have already heard, Medicare has revised the ABN form that patients sign. [What is the ABN form? From the American Chiropractic Association.] The revised form, with a new title, \u201cAdvance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage,\u201d can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/new-abn-form-coming-soon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-reimbursement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}