Goal & what you need
Goal
Obtain a complete, auditable financial-record package for every approved medical billing account and close only after each requested artifact is verified or a responsible lawyer accepts a documented exception.
What you need
- A reviewed provider and billing-custodian inventory
- Responsible-lawyer direction on purpose, requester pathway, scope, and final reviewer
- A valid patient request, personal-representative authority, or authorization appropriate to the selected pathway
- Known dates of service, facilities, practitioners, account numbers, claim information, or other approved identifiers
- Approved secure transmission, delivery, storage, and tracking systems
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- 1Confirm the approved purpose, requester pathway, date range, through-date, billing categories, owner, and responsible-lawyer reviewer; stop if the request purpose or authority is unresolved.
- 2Break out every potential biller for each episode of care, including the facility, physician or medical group, radiology, pathology, laboratory, anesthesia, ambulance, therapy, pharmacy, equipment supplier, and other known ancillary providers.
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