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Show Aire Voia Eligible? If you had a Medicare claim paid after July 1, 1975, you may be eligible to some additional addi-tional payment on that claim. In order to limit the amount of increase in costs for physician services the Medicare program placed a top limit on reimbursement. For the period beginning July 1, 1975, it was 17.9 percent over what the program paid in 1975. INADVERTENTLY this had the effect of Medicare paying less for a small number of services after July 1, 1975 than the program was paying in the prior year. A law was passed in 1975 to prevent that reduction from occurring again and to repay on any claim where a decrease had occurred. BY LAW, the amount of WWVWWWWiftft difference on a claim for service ser-vice must be $1 or more before additional payment will be made. Medicare beneficiaries will be getting such checks between now and June 30. The Explanation of Medical Benefits received with the check will read: "Because of recent legislation, legisla-tion, this additional amount is being approved for services previously approved by Medicare." YOU DO not have to contact your Social Security Office to determine if additional payment is due you. The payments will be made automatically au-tomatically to all persons eligible for them. |