tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 8

COMPLIANCE ~ 3 Options To Keep Your Stake In Nuclear Medicine Or PET Scans

Refund any payments you received for doc-owned PET scans since January. Heads up: As of Jan. 1, 2007, you can't bill for nuclear medicine scans that your physician owns a share of and referred patients to.According to a client bulletin by Edward Kornreich and Roger Cohen with New York-based Proskauer Rose, the only way out is to meet one of these safe harbors:1) The in-office exception: The billing doctor or another doctor in the same group has to perform the test personally. And only that doctor, or his/her group, can bill for the test. The equipment must be...

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