DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 5 (May)

8 locum tenens questions and the right answers in time for summer

Your physicians are starting to plan summer vacations, which may force you to bring in temporary replacements and bill under Medicare's confusing locum tenens billing rules. Bringing in temporary physicians under locum tenens - which requires you to bill under the Q6 modifier using the national provider identifier (NPI) of the physician being replaced - often leads to a barrage of questions about hypothetical situations.

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