tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 4

Practice Management: 3 Tips Clean Up Your Incident-To Billing

Steer clear of 2013 OIG Work Plan scrutiny. If your general surgery practice utilizes non-physician practitioners (NPPs), you have some billing opportunities — and pitfalls. Billing incident-to provides an opportunity to garner 100 percent of the assigned physician fee for your NPP. But doing it wrong sets you up for a pitfall that will run afoul of the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG’s) plan to scrutinize such billing practices in 2013. Get going in the right direction with the following expert tips for spot-on incident-to coding. Tip 1: Establish the Basics According to Medicare’s incident-to rules...

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