Medical Expense✓ Verified · outline & fact-checked · Sep 2026Difficulty 2/5
When a physician accepts assignment for Medicare Part B services, the physician agrees to:
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Why A is correct
A physician who accepts assignment agrees to accept the Medicare-approved amount as full payment for covered services. Medicare pays 80% of the approved amount and the beneficiary, or a supplemental policy, pays the 20% coinsurance. Participating providers accept assignment for all services, whereas non-participating providers may not, and their patients may face balance-billing limits. This is the core of the assignment concept.
Why the other options are wrong
- B) Billing above the approved amount is balance billing; accepting assignment expressly means accepting the approved amount as full payment.
- C) Providers who accept assignment submit claims to Medicare on the beneficiary's behalf.
- D) The Part B deductible may apply, but there is no separate upfront fee for accepting assignment.
Memory hook
Assignment = the doctor accepts Medicare's approved amount as full payment.