DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 4 (April)

NPP Benchmark: NP vs. PA utilization and denial data by code range, 2009

These charts analyze the difference between nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in terms of their Medicare utilization and denial rates, separated by code type (as defined by code ranges). All data is based on CMS claims data from 2009.  Overall, while medicine codes are the greatest area of utilization for both NPs and PAs, the utilization data clearly shows NPs bill more medicine codes and fewer surgeries, whereas PAs exhibit the opposite trend.

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