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03/25/2010

Put your new non-physician practitioners (NPPs) through a gradual integration process when they join your practice to get the best results, experts say. Both your patients and your staff need time to adjust to newly added NPPs, especially when you've never used NPPs before. 

03/25/2010

Summary: Practices that consistently see higher denials on consults than E/Ms may actually see less of a payment reduction now that consults are gone, and vice versa. This also holds true for the consults and E/Ms billed by your practice's non-physician practitioners (NPPs). NPPs billed nearly 10.3 million E/M services and about 650,000 consults in 2008.

03/25/2010

This week's question is answered by Sean Weiss, CPC, vice president, DecisionHealth Professional Services.  

Q.   Can non-physician practitioners (NPPs) such as physician assistants (PAs) or nurse practitioners (NPs) have reciprocal billing arrangements with one another if all of the PAs/NPs are enrolled in Medicare?

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