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Follow Incident-to Rules to Garner Full E/M Payment

Published on Fri Jun 03, 2022

Remember the established care plan rule. In order to maximize resources, many practices often use incident-to billing. This allows nonphysician practitioners (NPPs) to provide evaluation and management (E/M) services to patients without the physician’s accompaniment. The benefit: Correctly reporting incident-to means that you can bill your NPP’s services under the National Provider Identifier (NPI) of the physician; this will garner [...]
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