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11/18/2010

Your non-physician practitioners (NPPs) have an opportunity to boost revenue significantly thanks to provisions in the final 2011 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) aimed at strengthening primary care services for seniors, an NPP Report analysis shows.

11/18/2010

The 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule had one silver lining for therapy providers. The Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction (MPPR) will slash the practice expense (PE) of subsequent therapy services billed on the same day by 25% instead of the proposed 50% (PBN 11/08/10).

11/18/2010

The top two non-physician practitioner (NPP) specialties have similar denial rates for the services they bill most frequently, an NPP Report analysis shows. Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) had almost the same average denial rate for their top codes in 2008, but while NPs lowered their denial rate in 2009, PAs saw their average denial rate increase.

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