DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 6 (June)

Ask an NPP Report Expert

This week's question is answered by John Burns CPC, senior consultant for DecisionHealth Professional Services.

Q.   If a Nurse Practitioner sees a patient, can we bill under the NPI of a doctor who was in the office, even if he never saw the patient and didn't sign off on the chart? We'd like to get the higher payment but we don't want to get audited.

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