Questions that Billing Medicare Can Answer

• (For Railroad Retirement beneficiaries only) - Part B bills and services.


• Bills for durable medical equipment and a list of approved suppliers of this equipment.


• Home health, hospice care, and fraud.


• Medicare Secondary Payer, and who pays first.


• Part A bills and services, hospital care, skilled nursing care, and fraud.


• Part B bills and services.


• Reporting fraud.

Organizations that can provide Helpful Information on Billing Medicare

• Carrier (Part B)


• DMERC -- Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier


• Fiscal Intermediary (Part A)


• Medicare Coordination of Benefits Contractor


• OIG (DHHS) -- Office of the Inspector General (Department of Health and Human Services)


• RHHI -- Regional Home Health Intermediary


• RRB Carrier - Railroad Retirement Board Carrier