advanced beneficiary notice

advanced beneficiary notice

Managed care A document signed by a Pt accepting responsibility for paying for a test or diagnostic service which the Pt's primary care thinks is appropriate, which Medicare may not under Medicare's 'reasonable and necessary' standard, and therefore not pay the party performing the test. See Reasonable and necessary.

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