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MEDICARE / MEDICAID

Assignment of Medicare Benefits

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society supports the physician’s right to accept or decline assignment of Medicare benefits from patients on a case-by-case basis.

(Resolution 11-1983, adopted 5/7/83)
(reaffirmed, Report FF-1993, Item 8, adopted 11/7/93)
(revised, Report H-2003, Item 3 #21, adopted as amended 11/16/03)
(revised, Report L3-2004, Item 36, adopted 11/14/2004)
(reaffirmed, Report I-2009, Item 2-22, adopted 11/01/2009) (reaffirmed, Reaffirmation Report-2014, Item 70, adopted 10/25/2014)