Medical billing and coding for NPs

What's your practice setting? I feel that this makes a difference on what educational offering you should take.

Unfortunately, I don't work in that setting and the resources I know won't help you. Hopefully, someone who has a similar role can help.

Carolyn Buppert MSN, JD is a health care attorney and author who has written extensively on this topic for nurse.com, Medscape along with her private practice.-- visit her website for articles and books.

Billing Physician Services Provided by NPs in Specialists’ Offices, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Homes and Hospice (2017) provides the complicated Medicare rules on billing for NP services as well as advice on dealing with private payers. Cost $25.00.

See Carolyn's website publication section for:

Billing and Coding Nurse Practitioner Services in the Acute Care Setting

Safe, Smart Billing and Coding: Evaluation and management. (2017)

Medscape articles: Legal and Professional Issues for Nurses

I'm Being Audited by CMS--Should I Worry?

'Incident-to' Billing Explained: Who Uses It, When, and Why?

A nurse practitioner asks for a tutorial on Medicare's incident-to billing rules, wondering whether they apply to other insurers as well.

2 hours ago, lucylucy5240 said:

What setting do you work? What resources do you have? I think anything would help.

I work in Critical Care and one of the texts we use is this one, it covers NP's: https://store.sccm.org/detail.aspx?id=CODEB7

7 hours ago, juan de la cruz said:

I work in Critical Care and one of the texts we use is this one, it covers NP's: https://store.sccm.org/detail.aspx?id=CODEB7

You could also look at this one:

https://store.sccm.org/SearchResults.aspx?searchterm=integrating&searchoption=ALL

Although I have an authors bias.