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Can NPPs Bill Multiple Same-Day E/Ms? This MAC Says "Yes"

NGS to relax NPP E/M rules if specialties differ. The good news? In the spirit of Medicare’s “Patients Over Paperwork” initiative, one of the nation’s leading Medicare administrative contractors (MACs), National Government Services (NGS), is in the process of changing the rules that currently do not allow certain nonphysician practitioners (NPPs) to provide multiple E/M services on the same date [...]
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