tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2014 Issue 10

Compliance: Don't Fall Victim To Heightened OIG Scrutiny

Tip: Be careful about which services you let NPPs perform. You want to bring in additional income and free up physician time to focus on complex cases by hiring a non-physician practitioner (NPP) but suddenly find yourself in the crossfire of audits and fraud investigations. Terrifying prospect? You can avoid it by taking a look at these four criteria that you must meet to avoid scrutiny and denials. Capture an Extra 15 Percent Under incident-to rules, qualified NPPs can treat certain patients and still bill the visit under the physician’s provider number (NPI), bringing in 100 percent of...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.