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11/21/2011

How have inpatient E/M utilization by nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) changed from 2009 to 2010 – the first year in which CMS stopped accepting consultation codes (99241-99255)? In 2010, inpatient consults were required to be billed as initial or subsequent hospital care codes (99221-99233) by CMS. All figures are based on the latest Medicare claims data from 2010. NOTE: All billing data for NPs and PAs are based only on services billed under their own individual national provider identifiers (NPIs). CMS does not distinguish between physician-billed services and those billed incident-to by NPPs.

11/21/2011

Can a nurse practitioner (NP) perform a joint injection? If so, whose name goes on the documentation if the NP performs the injection while the doctor is performing an E/M visit on the same patient? Also, is this encounter billed under the physician’s or the NP’s national provider identifier (NPI)?

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