tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 4

Incident-To Billing: Incident-To Compensation Is Just What The Doctor Ordered

Make sure you know who is your supervising doc on dutyCoders are applauding a recent clarification on incident-to services - but it's also causing its share of compensation confusion.In September 2004, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services changed its incident-to requirements (see PBI, vol. 5, No. 35). Before that, carriers would often assume that the physician who ordered incident-to services would also supervise them. But now, you can list two different doctors as the ordering and supervising physicians, notes Jean Acevedo with Acevedo Consulting in Delray Beach, FL.Know the right boxes: You should list the ordering...

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