Question

1. What is the patient portion of the CMS-1500 and what information does it require?

Answer 1

The full form of CMS 1500 is Center for Medicare Services.

This is a Health insurance claim form and is used  to bill an insurance for rendered services and supplies.

In order to take the benifit of CM 1500 form one has to fill the every required data in the form.

There several data required like, SFHP ID no, name of patients, date of birth, gender, insured's name, patients address, patients relationship to insured, insured's address, patients status, other insured's information, signature and date.

The top portion of a CMS-1500 contains information about the client, their insurance details, and the policy plan type.

The bottom portion contains information about the clinic, the providers, the diagnosis, and the related treatment codes.