DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 10 (October)

NPP Report: 3 common incident-to errors that could get you audited

Your non-physician practitioners’ (NPPs) incident-to billing practices are a top target on the HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) 2012 WorkPlan, which meansyour NPPs must be extremely careful when billing these services. NPPs are invisible on incident-to claims which is why it is so important to make sure a service musters up to the criteria, says Dianne Wilkinson, RHIT, a compliance auditor at West Tennessee Healthcare in Jackson, Tenn.

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