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NPP Benchmark: NPs, PAs among specialties who bill higher level E/M codes

Effective May 21, 2012
Published May 21, 2012
Last Reviewed Mar 18, 2014

This chart shows the breakdown of specialties among the nearly 1,700 physicians who billed either a level 4 or level 5 for at least 95% of all their E/M codes in 2010. The 1,700 consistently high-billing doctors were chronicled in an HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report released this month.

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