Medicare’s Teaching Physician Billing Requirements

This presentation outlines the documentation and billing requirements of teaching physicians for services rendered to patients by medical residents. Required levels of teaching physician supervision and sample verbiage for required teaching physician notes are discussed. Key areas of concern are addressed, as well as efficient solutions to avoid common problems.

Target Audience

West Kendall Baptist Hospital GME faculty, including: family medicine practitioners, cardiologists, emergency medicine physicians, surgeons, hospitalists, Ob/Gyns, nephrologists, hematologists/oncologists, infectious disease specialists, gastroenterologists, neurologists, ENTs, ophthalmologists, urologists, pulmonologists, critical care physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, medical students, residents, fellows and other interested healthcare professionals.  

Learning Objectives

  • Implement up-to-date organizational billing requirements. 
  • Implement up-to-date government payer billing requirements. 
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
Course opens: 
08/01/2020
Course expires: 
01/31/2021

Seth Canterbury, CPC, CPC-I
Healthcare Coding and Reimbursement Consultant

Mr. Seth Canterbury, CPC, CPC-I, indicated that neither he nor his spouse/partner has relevant financial relationships with commercial interest companies, and he will not include off-label or unapproved product usage in his presentation or discussion.

Agueda Hernandez, M.D., conference director, indicated that neither she nor her spouse/partner has relevant financial relationships with commercial interest companies. 

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
              
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
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