[NPInfo] medicare billings for nurse BP checks????

[Yox, Susan]

Paula -- 

See:
Billing For Nurse Practitioner Services -- Update 2007: Guidelines for
NPs, Physicians, Employers, and Insurers
http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/7767

One section:

Billing an Assistant's Services Under an NP's Provider Number
A medical practice may bill the services of a non-NP incident to an NP's
services (ie, bill an assistant's services under an NP's provider
number) if the rules for incident-to billing are followed. For example,
if an NP sees a patient and orders an electrocardiogram (EKG), and an
office technician performs the test, the NP may bill for the EKG as if
the NP had performed it, under the incident-to billing provision.

Susan Yox, Medscape

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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:38:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paula Sumner <nurse_healer at yahoo.com>
Subject: [NPInfo] medicare billings for nurse BP checks????
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OK, gang, I need a bit of advice. I thought I read that 'bp checks' by
the office nurse could be billed or are billable under my name?  Is this
correct? Do you know the code???  
  Paula