Wiki Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist billing for Medicare

[SWILSON]

We have a new Nurse Practitioner who will be working as a provider in our hospitalist program. Is there any way to receive 100% of Medicare payment? Could we have a cross covering provider counter sign the hospital charts?

Is there any Legal way to accomplish this?

 

[cheermom68]

You would have to use split share visits, both the NP and the provider billing have to see (face to face)the patient and document a portion of the note. Google split share and CMS and it will pull the manual section that you need. Counter sign alone will not work for this.

 

[SWILSON]

Thank you.