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07/22/2010

Your non-physician practitioners (NPPs) stand to benefit from a major health reform provision in the proposed 2011 physician fee schedule (PFS). Physician assistants, nurse practitioners and certified clinical nurse specialists are eligible for a 10% bonus to their payments for primary care services, but there's a catch, an NPP Report analysis shows.

07/22/2010

This chart looks at the intensity of non-physician practitioner (NPP) work, as measured by the average number of claims billed by each type of NPP. NOTE: Because Medicare claims data only shows NPP utilization when NPPs bill under their own national provider identifier (NPI), this data excludes all NPP services that were billed incident-to.

07/22/2010

New CMS signature requirements can trigger retroactive incident-to denials when a plan of care authored by a physician doesn't contain a valid signature (PBN 3/22/10).

07/22/2010

Does a PA have to be credentialed with Medicare to see patients "incident to" a medicare credentialed physician in the practice?

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