Industry Notes: CMS Updates Incident-To Regs -- NPPs Take Note
Plus: Lawmakers plan legislation to save Medicare payment cuts for early June
If you've been wondering when CMS would finally clarify some of the more sticky issues involved in incident-to coding, that time has come.
On May 2, CMS issued Transmittal 87, which revises the incident-to guidelines. The main revisions involve CMS' inclusion of nonphysician practitioners (NPPs) in much of the language.
For instance, where the policy previously referred to a "physician's services," it now notes that it refers to a "physician's NPP's professional services."
You can find the new incident-to regulations on the CMS Web site...
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