As a whole, your Medicare carrier:

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• Uses private carriers to process requests for insurance coverage and review appeals.

• Uses different carriers for each state or territory.

• Uses private carriers for durable equipment, claims, and business functions

• Process claims for Original Medicare

• Make Medicare payments

• Account for Medicare payments

• Recruit and enroll Original Medicare service providers

• Review appeals and make reimbursements

• Review medical records as needed for claims

• Establish Local Coverage Determinations to include ore procedures as medicinal applications grow

• Handle inquiries from service providers

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Your claims, payments, appeals, etc. for Original Medicare must, then, be directed to your carrier.