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DaleyCare Medicare Glossary

Learn more about Medicare. Start with these definitions.

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B

BALANCE BILLING

Balance billing is a practice in which doctors or other health care providers bill you for charges that exceed the amount that will be reimbursed by Medicare for a particular service.  If you doctors is a participating provider with Medicare (96 percent of doctors who provide Medicare-covered services are participating providers), balance billing is forbidden.

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