DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 2 (February)

NPP Benchmark: NPP vs. physician use of high-level E/Ms, 2006 vs. 2008

Non-physician practitioners (NPPs) billed far fewer high-level E/M visits than physicians did from 2006 to 2008. The trend affected both new and established patient visits, according to an NPP Report analysis of CMS claims data. Not surprisingly, utilization for established visits is consistently higher than for new visits, which pay better but have more demanding documentation requirements.

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