toria11
Guru
Hi, your favorite, an incident-to question please. If a physician documents in a previous note that the patient is to come back for Urocuff, then the patient sees an APP for the Urocuff but no physician is in the office that day, can they bill the Urocuff incident-to the physician if the physician is available for virtual video-audio communication?'
Is there a limit as to which procedures are able to be billed incident-to?
"Just as in-person direct supervision does not require presence in the same room as the personnel performing the service, virtual direct supervision does not require the real-time observation of the supervised service. Instead, it requires the supervising practitioner to be immediately available to engage via audio-visual technology to assist and direct the service."
Is there a limit as to which procedures are able to be billed incident-to?
"Just as in-person direct supervision does not require presence in the same room as the personnel performing the service, virtual direct supervision does not require the real-time observation of the supervised service. Instead, it requires the supervising practitioner to be immediately available to engage via audio-visual technology to assist and direct the service."