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Incident-to Be or not to Be?

Published on Tue Jan 07, 2020

MedPAC looking into new NP/PA policy. Many orthopedic practices have used "incident-to" billing to great effect when one of their nurse practitioners (NPs) or physician assistants (PAs) perform evaluation and management (E/M) services that they can bill under the physician’s National Provider Identifier (NPI). However, this billing convention could be going the way of the dodo and the VCR, as [...]
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