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Legally Billing Services Under a Different Provider

Published on Tue Sep 26, 2023

Brush up on incident-to, Locum Tenems, and reciprocal billing. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) describes certain situations in which a provider can bill Medicare even if someone else performed the services reported. Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) describe these services accordingly: Incident-to Services: “Incident to is defined as services or supplies that are furnished incident to a physician’s [...]
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