DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 4 (April)

Ask a Part B News Expert: How do multiple providers, in the same practice, bill for seeing the same patient?

Two physicians from same group with the same tax ID number see the patient in observation status. The first physician is on call and admits the patient to observation, then turns care over to his partner, who is the patient’s primary physician. The partner sees the patient on the subsequent observation day. Can this second physician use the subsequent observation day codes even though he was not the admitting physician? This is not a consulting scenario, but a transfer of care from one partner to the other within the same group.
 

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