Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Compliance:

Sharing Credentials May Mean Breaking the Law

Question: We recently signed on a new physician at our practice and they’re only contracted with two payers currently. One of the other doctors is frustrated that this new practitioner can’t take on their full share of the workload immediately. The established doctor has advised us to just use their own information when billing the new doctor’s encounters so the [...]
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