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tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 6
COMPLIANCE: Refund Any Payments You Received For Doc-Owned PET Scans Since January
You have 3 options to keep your stake in nuclear medicine or PET scansHeads 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...
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