tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 5

Reader Question: Make Arrangements for Incident-to Under Locum Tenens

Question: One of the surgeons in our practice will be traveling for two months and has made locum tenens arrangements with another surgeon to cover while he is away. My question is, the traveling surgeon works with a nurse practitioner who bills incident-to under his NPI — how should we bill the NP’s incident-to service while he is away? Pennsylvania Subscriber Answer: You may be able to continue to bill incident to using the traveling physician’s National Provider Identifier (NPI) The supervising physician doesn’t have to be the physician associated with a patient’s care plan...

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