Coding and Billing Updates for Physician Assistants
Jill M. Young
Healthcare provider shortages are being filled in many areas by Physician Assistants. This is especially true for hospital owned practices. Whether in the hospital rounding, performing procedures or seeing patients in the office, these valuable providers are being seen more and more. CMS/Medicare calls them NPP’s. Other names include Mid-Levels or Physician Extenders. Whatever the name, these valuable providers have three unique methods of billing available to them, per CMS/Medicare. Other commercial carriers add a fourth. Understanding each of these methods, what the patient care model is for it and deciding which will work best for your practice is imperative to avoid non-compliant billing. The area of billing for NPP’s is one that I have seen where the logic is “because we have always done it that way” and not because of any carrier rules or policies. This type of logic exposes your practice to audits, and possible sanctions if the “traditions way” of billing is not the current compliant way.
CPT for 2024 has seen major changes in their Guidelines for Split or Shared visits. These changes are not surprising but need to be understood to see if your practice is following them in 2024. CMS/Medicare has also made a major change in their definition of Split or Shared visits and this may create compliance issues if the new Guidelines are not incorporated into your policies and procedures for the care your NPP’s give.
This timely webinar will give you the valuable updates in Guidelines for your Physician Assistant for 2024 but will also review the other methods of billing for their services. This will ensure that your practice can have compliant documentation, coding and billing of your Physician Assistant’s services.
Webinar Objectives
The three methods of billing for services that CMS/Medicare allows will be discussed in detail with examples of compliant and non-compliant documentation.
The fourth method that commercial carriers sometimes utilize will also be discussed.
About this course
This timely webinar will give you the valuable updates in Guidelines for your Physician Assistant for 2024 but will also review the other methods of billing for their services. This will ensure that your practice can have compliant documentation, coding and billing of your Physician Assistant’s services.
Credits & Accreditation
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2 hours Live Webinar
2 credits NASBA and IRS
Basic Learning level
Delivery method Group Internet based
No prerequisites
Instructor
Jill M. Young- (CEMA, CPC, CEDC, CIMC)
Jill M. Young- (CEMA, CPC, CEDC, CIMC)
Jill M Young is the Principal of Young Medical Consulting, LLC. A company founded 18 years ago to meet the education and compliance needs of physicians and their staff Jill has over 40 years of medical experience working in all areas of the medical practice including clinical, billing and rounding with physicians. Her unique style of working with physicians is not only effective but helps bridge the gap between coders and physicians from a practical perspective. Her comments and opinions can be seen in several publications and also heard on a variety of audio-conferences. Her background gives her a unique style of teaching using real life examples of coding and billing situations. She hates boring lectures, so be prepared for a presentation that is fast paced and informative.