How to Verify Health Insurance
There may be various reasons why you would have a need to verify health insurance. You may be a medical provider verifying insurance for a patient, or a patient checking to make sure that your insurance is covering what it should. Use these steps to verify primary and secondary health insurance. Verifying Health Insurance as a Health Care Provider Maintain accurate records. Make sure that patient information is up-to-date. The basic information you should have in the record are patient's name, and date of birth, the name of the person who is the primary insured (commonly the mother’s or father’s name if your patient is a child), social security number, the name and contact information of the insurance provider, and the patient’s insurance ID and group number. If you do not have the information required by the insurance company, and if this information is not accurate, you may not be able to verify the patient’s insurance. Many factors regarding insurance coverage can ...