Take heed of 'incident to' rule for medicare. (Whose Provider Number is it, Anyway?).

From: OB GYN News | Date: February 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

WASHINGTON -- Be careful of the "incident to" rule when billing Medicare for services performed by nonphysicians, Alice Gosfield warned at a meeting sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association.

The "incident to" rule has become more complicated with the advent of more degreed professionals in the doctor's office, said Ms. Gosfield, a health care attorney in Philadelphia. "The [doctor] used to have 'the girl.' She was either a high school graduate, laboratory technician, medical transcriptionist, a nurse, or the doctor's wife. [She] ran the physician's office and did ...

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