DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 10 (October)

Benchmark of the Week: NP vs. PA E/M level selection, 2009-2010

Who picks more high-level E/M codes, nurse practitioners (NPs) or physician assistants (PAs)? These charts examine the ratio of new and established patient E/M levels by NPs and Pas, comparing 2009 data to recently released 2010 data. NOTE: Incident-to services billed by non-physician practitioners (NPPs) appear as additional physician utilization in CMS claims data, thus the NPP services in this data do not include those that were billed incident-to.

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