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Let This Tool Make The Incident-To Decisions For You

Published on Mon Jan 12, 2009

Follow the flow chart to determine when incident-to services are billable. Suppose your nonphysician practitioner sees a patient on a day when your physician is working, but is out at lunch.Can you bill the service incident-to? The answer is no. Use this handy tool, created by Barbara Cobuzzi, MBA,CENTC, CPC-H, CPC-P, CPC-I, CHCC, president of CRN Healthcare Solutions, Tinton Falls, N.J. to help you determine when you can bill services incident-to and when you can't.
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