CJ Wolf
With physician and clinician shortages in healthcare, many entities are turning to non-physician practitioners (NPPs) such as nurse practitioners or physician assistants. Often, NPPs and physicians provide services to the same patient on the same day.
Healthicity
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was created to standardize the protection of sensitive patient data.
CJ Wolf
We recently, recorded a new episode of Compliance Conversations, titled “Understanding the Nuance of NPP Coding” with Christopher Chandler, a Technical Manager of Professional Documentation and Coding,
Healthicity
Q1: Can a physician and an NPP of the same specialty and the same group are both bill critical care code 99291 if documenting the critical time for the patient?
Lamon Willis
Annually, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes its Fee-For-Service (FFS) Improper Payment Report, a result of the accumulated totals of the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) audits.
