Quick Question about Claim Submission

[shaq786]

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We get a lot of scrips from a teaching hospital, and they are obviously written by interns. And interns dont have their own DEA number or NPI number.

How do you get the insurance to pay for something like that?

 

[deleted205891]

Call them and ask for the physician that the intern works under, and bill under him/her.

 

[Ackj]

Call them and ask for the physician that the intern works under, and bill under him/her.

This. Or sometimes for residents we just use their name with hospital's generic DEA.

 

[psychoandy]

Back in the day we just used hospital DEA but nowadays I'm pretty sure that every intern (especially if they're writing rx) should have an NPI. It's like the first thing they do at hospital orientation. And it's not that hard to do an NPI search, even on google.

Call them and ask for the physician that the intern works under, and bill under him/her.

This never worked for me for discharge pt's (compared to clinic) , since interns/residents are all over the place and the phone number was usually the hospital switchboard. And of course the resident name is illegible without even a pager number...

 

[ronkoshy]

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