Is your facility getting paid appropriately for services rendered by non-physician providers? It will be with this new book and CD-ROM set!
Who are the non-physician providers (NPPs) in your organization? Walk down any hall in your hospital and you'll meet physician assistants and nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, respiratory therapists, and surgical technologists. You facility probably employs clinical psychologists and social workers, physical and occupational therapists, and speech language pathologists.
Hospitals, physician offices, and clinics all depend on these and many other non-physician professionals to provide quality, cost-effective healthcare to the public. Here is a tool to help you manage training and supervision issues, and the documentation, billing, coding, and reimbursement rules for non-physician providers.
Non-Physician Providers: Guide to Coding, Billing, and Reimbursement, is a book and CD-ROM set that will help you determine:
which providers in your organization fall into various NPP categories how these professionals are licensed, and appropriate scope of practice limitations billing and reimbursement issues how to code for NPP services, including professional (CMS-1500) versus technical (UB-92) component billing place-of-service limitations provider-based status considerations enrollment in the Medicare program through CMS' Form 855 In order to optimize the role and productivity of NPPs, it is critical that compliance, finance, and practice management professionals understand the complex billing and compliance issues that shape the NPPs practice. Non-Physician Providers: Guide to Coding, Billing, and Reimbursement covers 'incident-to' rules, supervisory requirements, provider-based status, the main Medicare payment systems, and state level 'scope-of-practice' considerations.
Reports and forms you can customize
The accompanying CD-ROM includes forms and reports you can customize for use at your organization, as well as rules and regulations that govern the scope of an NPP's practice.
You'll also find a fifteen-point checklist to help you gather information, analyze and assess the possible use of various NPP categories, and strategies for billing and proper reimbursement.
Non-Physician Providers: Guide to Coding, Billing, and Reimbursement is essential reading for NPPs themselves who want to learn more about how their services can be utilized and ways in which reimbursement can be gained, and for hospitals and physician practices that need to understand how to appropriately employ NPPs, bill for their services and stay in compliance.
Non-physician providers are changing - and improving - the delivery of quality patient care. Make sure your organization keeps pace with the reimbursement rules and optimizes benefit from this growing resource of healthcare professionals.
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