An “Assignment of Payment” is a legal agreement by which an attending practitioner designates
payment for his/her services to another party. In this circumstance, the designated party may use the
attending practitioner’s practitioner number in combination with its own payment number when
submitting claims to MSP. To authorize MSP to make payment to a designated party, the attending
practitioner must complete and file an “Assignment of Payment” form. However, even though the
payment has been assigned, the responsibility for the clinical service and its appropriate billing
remains with the practitioner whose practitioner number is used.
Adequate Medical Records of a Benefit under MSP
Except for referred “diagnostic facility” services, a medical record is not considered adequate unless it
contains all information which may be designated or implied in the MSC Payment Schedule for the
service. Another medical practitioner of the same specialty, who is unfamiliar with both the patient and
the attending medical practitioner, would be able to readily determine the following from that record at
hand:
a. Date and location of the service.
b. Identification of the patient and the attending medical practitioner.
c. Presenting complaint(s) and presenting symptoms and signs, including their history.
d. All pertinent previous history including pertinent family history.
e. The relevant results, both negative and positive, of a systematic enquiry pertinent to the
patient’s problem(s).
