Are You Making This Common Medical Billing Vs Pharmacy Mistake?

What this video covers

This video explains the split between medical benefit and pharmacy benefit billing, where practices most often bill drugs under the wrong pathway, and what that error costs. It is for practice owners, in-office dispensing programs, and infusion practices whose teams handle both claim types and keep seeing avoidable denials.

• Know the two benefits. Medical benefit claims use CMS-1500 forms while pharmacy claims adjudicate in real time through a PBM, and the rules differ completely.
• Check drug billing pathway. Buy-and-bill drugs usually belong on the medical benefit, and billing them through the pharmacy benefit triggers denials or deep underpayment.
• Verify before dispensing. Confirming which benefit covers a medication before administration prevents writing off expensive drugs that payers refuse after the fact.
• Train staff on both. Cross-trained billers who understand medical and pharmacy adjudication catch benefit errors that single-track billing teams routinely miss.

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