Synopsis:
Hiring non-physician practitioners (NPPs), such as nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or clinical nurse specialists, may be beneficial to your practice but you need to know about all of the implications before you start searching for qualified applicants. By leveraging the skills of your ancillary staff, you have an opportunity to see more patients in the practice and increase your revenue, while allowing your physicians to maximize their time and talents. But if you hire an NPP without learning the billing and coding rules that apply, you are setting your practice up for denials, lost revenue, or worse - fraud charges. Brought to you by The Coding Institute, our Non-Physician Practitioner Handbook includes tips and tricks, expert-answered reader questions, and sample tools to ensure you learn the pros and cons of hiring NPPs, as well as the ins and outs of maximizing reimbursement for NPP encounters.
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