If you would like to use any available nutrition counseling benefits of your commercial health insurance or Medicare policy, I will call to verify your nutrition counseling benefits to the best of my ability by the Monday prior to our first scheduled appointment.    If you also would like to verify your nutrition counseling benefits up to 48 hours before our first scheduled appointment, please text me or email me of this intention and I will provide you with the procedure and diagnosis codes I will be billing so you can verify specific benefits and not general benefits.  

I have been verifying nutrition counseling benefits for over 8 years and I am rarely misquoted.  However, there are sometimes exceptions that I cannot control. I always obtain a reference number to my call when I verify your nutrition counseling benefits. If I am misquoted there is a possibility that the claim will ultimately be paid as a misquote if the initial claim is denied and cannot be corrected by using a different diagnosis code. However, there is also the possibility that the claim will never be paid by the insurance company if it is denied.  I cannot make the insurance pay any claim and there is only so much administrative time I can put toward trying to get a claim paid on your behalf.

I will call the insurance company to inquire as to any denied claims.  If it is a billing error on my part I will resubmit with the correct information.  If the claim is denied because I was misquoted that you have nutrition counseling benefits on your insurance policy then I will attempt to appeal the denied claim as a misquote.  Not all insurance companies handle misquotes the same way as they all have “disclaimers” of quoted benefits.