I have a few questions and keep getting conflicting answers so I am asking the coding community to help me with this... Keep in mind that the NP has not taken any kind of x-ray course.
I work for a nurse practitioner owned family clinic in Tennessee. We recently dismissed our licensed x-ray technician. These are the following questions that I am hopeful someone can give me some clarification on. I am not willing to take the NP's word that I work for since it will be me who would be in trouble for wrong coding.
1. Is it required to have a licensed x-ray technician on staff or can the nurse practitioner take the x-rays themselves since they own the equipment that we are using?
2. Can the nurse practitioner bill for the professional and technical component of the x-ray if they read it themselves without having sent it for a read with a licensed radiologist?
Thank you,
debj
I work for a nurse practitioner owned family clinic in Tennessee. We recently dismissed our licensed x-ray technician. These are the following questions that I am hopeful someone can give me some clarification on. I am not willing to take the NP's word that I work for since it will be me who would be in trouble for wrong coding.
1. Is it required to have a licensed x-ray technician on staff or can the nurse practitioner take the x-rays themselves since they own the equipment that we are using?
2. Can the nurse practitioner bill for the professional and technical component of the x-ray if they read it themselves without having sent it for a read with a licensed radiologist?
Thank you,
debj