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Many people in the Culpeper area wait longer than necessary to receive payment from their Medicare medical insurance because they failed to submit itemized bills with their request for payment form, Bruce A. Hundley social security « district manager in Culpeper, said recently.

Medical insurance is the part of Medicare that helps pay for doctor bills, outpatient hospital bills, and other items and services not covered by hospital insurance.

\Tb receive payment under mpdjeal insurance, a person gcmrally submits a request for t pjiyment form and the doctorXor other supplier completes!part of the form or provides an itemized bill to send with uie form.

The troubled Hundley said,'s is that often the bill does not ‘ provide a detailed description of the services provided and therefore, a decision cannot be made as to whether they are covered. As a result, the patient must be contacted for more information and

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