Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

If you answered all three questions correctly, you're a Part B ace. Are your Part B skills up to speed? Now that you've reviewed the questions on the previous page, read on to find out how you fared in our quiz. Do Different Specialties Count? Answer 1: The answer depends on whether the two uro-gynecology practices share a tax ID number, says Barbara J.Cobuzzi, MBA, CPC,CPC-H, CPCP, CENTC, CHCC, senior coder and auditor for The Coding Network and president of CRN Healthcare Solutions in Tinton Falls, N.J. "CMS specifically states that the patient is a new patient when seen under the same tax ID number by a doctor of a new specialty, not a doctor who does not share a chart," Cobuzzi says. "As a matter of fact, the other specialty may be sharing the chart with a different specialty. That is not the metric." If the physicians do not [...]