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Practice Management:

Make Your Way To Successful Incident-To Billing With These Tips

Published on Wed Jul 03, 2013

Auxiliary staff can bring in the payment if CMS requirements are met. If your neurosurgery practice utilizes non-physician practitioners (NPPs), you’ll need to ensure you’re accurately reporting ‘incident-to’ services to avoid payment losses and unwanted payer scrutiny. Quick refresher:  In section 60.1 of chapter 15, the Medicare Benefits manual describes ‘incident-to’ services as those that “are furnished as an integral, [...]
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