Billing Tip: Ensure Visits Billed as ‘Incident To’ Meet Medicare Criteria

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is more closely scrutinizing services billed at physician reimbursement levels but performed by nonphysicians, according to a Medical Economics report HHS indicated its intention to take a closer look at these “incident-to” services, which are often performed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants, in its Office […]