About the Webinar
This course will address the nuances of billing for qualified healthcare providers. The impact of payer policies and the place of service will be reviewed. Specific requirements for billing incident-to for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries will be discussed in detail. The impact of the various methods for reporting services provided by qualified healthcare professionals will be examined.
At the conclusion of this session, the attendee should be able to:
- Differentiate incident-to billing from direct billing as it applies to qualified healthcare providers
- Identify the Medicare requirements for incident-to billing and the necessary documentation
- Summarize the effect that the place of service has on the reporting mechanisms for services provided by qualified healthcare providers
- Assess the financial impact and compliance issues associated with incident-to versus direct billing on the Ob-Gyn practice
Emily Hill, PA
Emily Hill is the President of Hill and Associates and has a broad professional background in the health care industry. With over 20 years of experience as a health care consultant, she has worked with numerous academic and private practices on coding, reimbursement, compliance, and practice management issues.
Emily has taught coding seminars and served as an advisor on coding and reimbursement issues for many medical specialty societies. She served as a representative to the AMA’s Relative Value Update Committee (RUC) for the American Academy of Physician Assistants from 1993 to 2019.
She is a graduate of the Wake Forest School of Medicine Physician Assistants program and received her BA in Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.