Medicare’s Teaching Physician Billing Rules 2023 — With END-OF-COVID-19 PHE UPDATES

Target Audience

Graduate Medical Education faculty and all other interested healthcare professionals.

Learning Objectives

  • Examine organizational supervision guidelines for teaching physicians and recognize the difference between Medicare teaching physicians billing rules. 
  • Implement teaching physician participation and documentation rules. 
  • Utilize E/M coding guidelines for various services and document appropriately. 
  • Review allowances made during COVID public health emergency, which have been made permanent and the documentation requirements for each allowance.  
     
Additional information
Bibliography: 
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2023, February 9). Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Ch. 12, Section 100. Cms.gov. Retrieved June 20, 2023
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2023, March 16). Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Ch. 15, Section 30.2. Cms.gov. Retrieved June 20, 2023
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2022, May 1). Teaching Physicians, Interns, and Residents Guidelines. CMS.gov. Retrieved June 20, 2023
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
Course opens: 
11/01/2023
Course expires: 
04/30/2024
Part of: 
Baptist Health GME Faculty Development e-Learning Series

Seth Canterbury, CPC, CPC-1
Healthcare Coding and Reimbursement Consultant
Miami, FL 

Seth Canterbury, CPC, CPC-1, faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage. 

Agueda Hernandez, M.D., conference director of this activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.

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

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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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 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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