tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 7

Physician Note: NPs Without Masters' Degrees Face Issues With PECOS

Plus: False Billings Lead to Mail Fraud Charge for Texas Physician If your nurse practitioner is trying to order and refer Medicare services, he’d better have a master’s degree, or your enrollment process will be filled with headaches. That’s the word from a Feb. 19 Medicare Open Door Forum. An office manager called into the session to say that when trying to enroll her nurse practitioner (NP) into Medicare’s PECOS system solely for the purpose of ordering and referring, she was unable to do so. Upon calling Medicare, she learned that CMS will not allow...

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