Hi all.
A few years ago our doctor hired a PA, and since then we've been billing her services incident-to because the doc has always been the first to see the patients, do the H/P, determine diagnosis and treatment plan, and is always in the office while the PA is seeing patients. Now we want to start having our PA see new patients (who will eventually see the doc). So this is about billing for an initial visit with the PA, which obviously can't be incident-to. My question is this: do I put the PA's NPI as rendering provider AND billing provider, or do I still use our practice NPI for the billing provider?
Thanks!