Many patients have vision plans as well as medical insurance plans. It can be challenging to select which one to bill, especially when patients want to be involved and are concerned about how much they will have to pay. Patients may even request that you charge their vision plan rather than their medical insurance. By following some strategies, you can make coordination between medical and vision plan billing more efficient and effective.
While it is standard billing practice to choose which plan (vision or medical) to bill depending on the patient’s major complaint and diagnosis, this is only sometimes possible. Before the appointment visit, it is necessary to confirm both vision policies and medical insurance.
Let’s take a look at how to make coordination between medical and vision plan billing easy:
With the pending current healthcare reforms, the discrepancy between vision insurance plans and medical insurance plans has placed optometrists in a billing predicament that other professions have yet to see. Dentistry is the closest equivalent situation. Optometrists must grasp the benefits of having both medical and vision insurance options accessible for billing purposes, as well as how to properly design a strategy that includes both medical and vision plans to benefit both the patient and the practitioner.
The following steps should be followed to grab the advantage of both plans:
Coordinating benefits for medical exams between patients’ primary medical insurance and their regular carriers not only serves patients but also permits doctors to be paid more equitably for their services. If the doctor performs a medical eye exam, the reimbursement should also reflect this. Due to the higher degree of care, risk, decision-making, and knowledge, medical reimbursements pay more than routine benefits.
To use the medical/vision plan billing technique, the following steps should be implemented:
Remember that after you get VSP’s payment as secondary, you will not be able to take any more exams off your schedule. You are only required to accept the medical carrier’s write-off under coordination guidelines. The patient must pay any leftover balance once VSP has been paid.
You cannot send VSP merely the refraction while submitting the exam code to the medical carrier. The 92- or 99-code for the exam, as well as the 92015 code for refraction, must be provided to medical first, followed by the whole EOP and a paper copy of the original claim submitted to the medical carrier, which is then sent to VSP for secondary payment.
Coordinating benefits will deplete the patient’s VSP eligibility, regardless of the amount invoiced. A patient may not benefit from primary-secondary billing if they have a high deductible or an HSA or FSA arrangement, which could result in higher out-of-pocket expenditures for the patient.
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