Insurance Type Code Rejection

Claims may reject when the secondary insurance does not contain a valid payer id or if the claim filing indicator is mb ma of or 16 when it should be ci or another common code.

Insurance type code rejection. This rejection occurs when medicare is used as a secondary insurance and the insurance type field has been left blank. It is requir oter not payer specific. Insurance type code missing. Element sbr05 is missing.

This code can be found in the rejection message or the practice can call the payer to get the code. Sbr05 insurance type code required when medicare is secondary or tertiary payer. Non specific procedure codes are those that include their descriptors. Click the edit icon corresponding to the payer.

Insurance type code is required for non primary medicare payer. This claim has been rejected because the description is missing for the non specific procedure code used procedure code. Follow the instructions below to enter the insurance type code. Element sbr05 is missing.

Verify on the patient insurance setup screen that if a secondary id type has been. Insurance type code is required for non primary medicare payer. Many insurance companies will require a cpt code line item note description when using certain service codes cpt codes that are indicated as non specific. Select the financial class and insurance type for the primary or secondary payer from the drop down.

The insurance type indicates why the insured has medicare as a secondary payer and is required when submitting secondary claims to medicare. Verify that the signature on file date has been completed under insured additional information. To correct this type of rejection. It is required when sbr01 is not p and payer is medicare.

Verify that the insurance type code has been completed for all insurances.