Can you bill for supervising an NP during inpatient consults?

[Quito]

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Hi,
I am a pain physician that started supervising an NP seeing some complex inpatient pain consults by actually seeing the patient with her similarly to seeing a patient with a trainee. I heard you can bill for that in a way where the NP gets 80% of the wRVU and you as the physician get 20% of the wRVU. Is that correct? Are there any resources online or elsewhere that you can point me to?

Thanks!

 

[Orin]

Hi,
I am a pain physician that started supervising an NP seeing some complex inpatient pain consults by actually seeing the patient with her similarly to seeing a patient with a trainee. I heard you can bill for that in a way where the NP gets 80% of the wRVU and you as the physician get 20% of the wRVU. Is that correct? Are there any resources online or elsewhere that you can point me to?

Thanks!

I'm sorry as that is perhaps the most draining aspects of pain medicine with the least remuneration. It is what administrators pine about as being the holy grail, but really is not why 99% of people get into pain medicine.

I believe what you are asking about is billing as a shared/split service. The key is that you must see the patient, document your own exam findings, document some substantive thing, and have more than just your typical seen/supervised/agree attestation.

Shared/Split Service - The Hospitalist

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www.the-hospitalist.org

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[Quito]

🙂Yeah, that's what I was asking about. Thanks so much!