Medicare Part B - In Home visits

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I need help in determing if there is a way to appeal or get around

the Medicare Part B structure that requires that when you bill Part

B for PT services in the home that the patient's current (where PT

provided) address matches the address associated with their Social

Security / Medicare Home address.

The current issue is that I have a current referral for a patient

that has come to live temporarily with her daughter after

hospitalization / surgery. Her legal home address is in Arizona and

she is now in Georgia.

I also have had another occurance of this during 2006 where I did

not find out about the different address until afterwards. All of

the claims were denied.

Any help will be greatly appreciated by myself and the patient that

is in need of my services.

Thank you

Brad Freemyer, PT

A Step Ahead Physical Therapy, LLC

brad@...