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Correctly Identify Incident-to and Split Visits Or Lose Out on Deserved Pay

Published on Tue Mar 14, 2017

Hint: Both Incident-to and split visits are applicable only to Medicare patients. When your FP and a non-physician practitioner (NPP) perform parts of an E/M service for a patient on the same date, you will need to correctly identify the service and report it under the correct National Provider Identifier (NPI). If you fail to appropriately report the service, your [...]
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