I just read the official statement on the CMS site...you cannot bill the patient. So, why did the CMS not just reduce the allowed amount instead of having us have to jump through another stupid accounting hoop???

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "