Definition
Any claim submitted by a physician or provider for the same service provided to a particular individual on a specified date of service that was included in a previously submitted claim. This does not include corrected claims.
Facts About Resubmitting Claims
Before you resubmit a claim because you have not received your payment or a response regarding your payment, stop and think. By sending another claim, you are adversely affecting the claims payment process and potentially creating confusion for the member.
- By resubmitting your service(s) a second time, we must conduct additional investigative steps which lengthens the claim processing time.
- If you resubmit a claim, we will ultimately deny the claim as a duplicate.
- The member will receive multiple EOBs for the same service, often resulting in a call to your office and/or ours.
- The majority of claims submitted to BCBSTX are processed before 30 days.
- In fact, most electronically submitted claims are processed within 14 days.
Prompt Pay Legislation Reminder
Per Senate Bill 418, a duplicate claim may not be submitted prior to the applicable 30-day (electronic) or 45-day (paper) claims payment period. In addition, you are required to indicate on the claim form, if you are submitting a duplicate claim.
Medicare Primary Claims
- If we are secondary to Medicare, you should not send either a paper or electronic claim directly to BCBSTX. In most cases, the claim is automatically submitted to us by the Medicare Crossover vendor.
- Professional providers may verify that the claim was forwarded through Crossover by checking the Medicare B Remittance Advice (RA). A message will appear on the RA confirming that the claim was forwarded electronically through Crossover.
- Facility providers should check their electronic RA for confirmation that the claim was forwarded to BCBSTX through Crossover.
- If you have not received notification that the claim was processed within 30 days, you may contact our office to verify receipt and/or processing of the claim.
- If for some reason the RA does not indicate the claim was forwarded, you may then submit an electronic claim to BCBSTX including Medicare’s payment information, or a paper claim with a copy of the Medicare RA attached.
Before Submitting a Duplicate Claim
The next time you do not receive a response from your original claim, please take the following steps prior to submitting a duplicate claim.
If the original claim was submitted as paper:
- Wait 30 days from the date you submitted the claim, before contacting Customer Service to verify receipt and next steps.
If the original claim was submitted as electronic:
- Access your electronic response report, if you transmit claims through Availity® or your preferred clearinghouse vendor to verify claims were accepted.
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