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09/24/2009

If an established patient has not visited the office in a couple of years, when can he/she be considered "new" at the next visit? What extra documentation should we include with the first claim?

09/24/2009

Get your new non-physician practitioner (NPP) acclimated to your practice by using these five transition strategies. Your peers say the transition is slow at first, but the NPP can better help your practice manage your current patient base and help you expand. 

09/24/2009

In other words, the greater an NPP's compensation to collections ratio, the smaller the amount of revenue earned by the practice as a result of the NPP's work. This means that the NPPs on the low end - like physical therapists and PAs who work in family practices - provide the most revenue to the practice, says David Litzau, survey analyst for the MGMA in Denver. 

09/24/2009

The three top earners - certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), chiropractors and surgical physician assistants (PAs) - each hit triple digits. Physical therapists were paid the least on average.

09/24/2009

We recently moved to an office suite in a hospital. Our doctors say we can bill incident-to when our nurse practitioners see patients in our office while the doctors see patients in the hospital because they're in the same building. I know this is wrong, but I've been challenged to "prove it." Can you direct me to any documentation from Medicare that will settle this question?

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