MnTwins29
True Blue
While doing coding reviews, I have discovered that all claims for services by our non-physician providers (NPs, PAs and CNMs), regardless of who the payer is or type of service rendered, have the claims signed by a physician. In some cases, all the progress notes are also signed by the physician. We will set aside Medicare claims for another audit of incident to, but my question is to the others. Are there regulations for signing progress notes? I can't find anything other than incident to rules. This is making me think that internal policies dictate this practice. Does anyone else have physicians sign for NPP's, especially progress notes? If so, what is the basis and your documentation?
Thank you.
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