• If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ & read the forum rules. To view all forums, post or create a new thread, you must be an AAPC Member. If you are a member and have already registered for member area and forum access, you can log in by clicking here. If you've forgotten the password it can be reset on our sign in section by entering your registered Email Address or Username here. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below..

Covering Physicians

M

marissa487

Contributor
Messages
10
Location
Holbrook, MA
I work in a small pediatric practice that covers everyother weekend for another small pediatric practice in a separate location. Since we are not considered a group, and patients need referrals to be seen could I bill those patients as a new patient?
 
Check your insurance contracts. Most of them specifically address covering physicians. In the majority of cases you cannot bill them as new patients, if you are covering then they are billed as they would be by the primary provider. But again, check you contracts.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top