tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 21

SHARED VISITS: Shared Visits Can Net 15 Percent More on Some E/M Services

Medicare allows NPP, physician to combine forces on some hospital servicesIn the office setting, incident-to billing is a vital part of the practice's reimbursement machine: Under incident-to rules, qualified nonphysician practitioners (NPPs) can treat certain patients and still bill the visit under the physician's National Provider Identifier (NPI).The hospital setting, however, is a different story. -There is no incident-to billing in the hospital,- says Mary Falbo, CPC, president of Millennium Healthcare Consulting Inc. in Lansdale, Pa. -But shared/ split visit billing is an option.-Shared-visit billing is not exactly incident-to, but it is a way to bill...

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