Discuss physician supervision requirements for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Apply the "incident to" and shared visit rules to real-life practice.
Examine the role of nursing staff in providing evaluation and management services.
Outline the Medicare reimbursement rules for nurse anesthetists.
Focus on appropriate documentation and coding for services provided by non-physician practitioners.

What is the most important item regarding this topic?

Understanding and appropriately applying the supervision requirements and reimbursement rules for non-physician practitioners.

Why is this topic relevant to compliance professionals?

Failure to understand the supervision requirements and reimbursement rules for non-physician practitioners can result in false claims, potential overpayments, criminal and/or civil prosecution, and exclusion from Federal health care programs.

Compliance professionals cannot assume providers understand these rules.  They must develop and implement policies and procedures and monitor compliance with these requirements.

Who should attend this conference?

Compliance officers, physician group practice managers, reimbursement specialists, mid-level practitioners, non-physician practitioners, physicians, coding managers, coders health care attorneys, and in house counsel.

The cost of registration includes dial-in information for one line.  Each additional line requires and additional registration fee payment.  For HCCA member registration cost is $175 , and for a non-member the cost is $215.

Please call 1-888-580-8373 to register.