Practice Management Alert

How would you bill this case?Test your incident-to billing skills with this case study from a Medical Office Billing & Collections Alert subscriber in Tennessee. I have a case where one physician (physician A) in my practice covered an established patient office visit for another physician (physician B) in the practice because physician B had to run across the street to see a patient in the hospital. They want me to bill the office visit incident-to physician B even though he was not in the office at the time. How would you bill these services? Answer: If you said you should not report this service incident to physician B, you're correct. Incident-to billing doesn't apply between two physicians. You cannot bill services provided by one physician under another physician's name or national provider identifier (NPI). Billing under the name of a physician who did not perform the service could lead [...]