What Determines Medicare’s “Medical Necessity”

Medicare pays only when a service is “medically necessary”, also known as “reasonable and necessary”, but what does that mean to a patient? The attached article focuses on how Medicare determines reasonable and necessity in order to pay or deny a claim. Read article here…

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