The patient/guarantor for a minor must give permission to bill an insurance carrier on HCFA 1500 claim form boxes 12 and 13. See link:
http://www.nucc.org/images/stories/P…2012_02-v6.pdf
In my years of billing, if a patient does not want the service submitted to the insurance, they have a reason for it. For example, sometimes they don’t want the dx to go on file anywhere.
June Grimmette CPC-A
Retired from Michigan Medicine (U of M Health System)
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