tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 16

HOME HEALTH: CPO Change Provides Good Marketing Ammo

Contact docs now to let them in on a new way to make money.It's final: Physician practices can bill for care plan oversight (CPO) provided by non-physician practitioners (NPPs). And that means it's time for HHAs to fire up their marketing machines.Out with the old: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has eliminated the provision limiting CPO billing to the physician who certified or recertified the plan of care for the home care patient. In with the new: That means NPPs now can bill for the service. Physician assistants can perform the service, but cannot independently...

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