Hi,
If a Nurse Practitioner is seeing a patient as a follow up visit and following the treatment plan of the MD from the previous office visit. We bill that as incident to. My question is if the NP has added a new diagnosis that was not included in the previous office note by the MD but is on a sleep study report that the MD has created after the MD's office visit but before the NP has seen the patient. Can that be billed incident to? Or must this diagnosis be originally on the office note?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Micki
If a Nurse Practitioner is seeing a patient as a follow up visit and following the treatment plan of the MD from the previous office visit. We bill that as incident to. My question is if the NP has added a new diagnosis that was not included in the previous office note by the MD but is on a sleep study report that the MD has created after the MD's office visit but before the NP has seen the patient. Can that be billed incident to? Or must this diagnosis be originally on the office note?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Micki