Healthicity Blog

Understanding incident-to can be stressful. According to an MLN Matters article, number SE0441, “To qualify as “incident to,” services must be part of your patient’s normal course of treatment

The OIG has added more items to their work plan in August (2018). Let’s take a quick look at some of the areas they will be scrutinizing.

My latest Compliance Conversations episode is called “The Teaching Physicians Rule: A Blessing or a Curse.”

Great, You’re a Perfectionist. Now What?

I’ve been auditing for almost thirty years. In that time, I’ve learned that auditors are typically extremely detail oriented, which is fantastic.

Weed. Marijuana. Ganja. The green plant goes by many names and has been a part of the global college and party scene for decades.

Training practitioners to better document their visits seems to spark frustration like nothing else among auditors, so much so that auditing forums are full of auditors asking for tips and tricks of the trade.

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?

The number of settlements with the government for issues of non-compliance are on the rise. And experts estimate that most physician practices are making mistakes.