Dont laugh......he has spoken with a friend that is also a M.P. His friend is filling his head with all kinds of things. Now, his friend is considered a facility because the hospital does all of his billing.......long story short, friend tells my provider that he bills a 90801 & 96102 in the same day, no modifiers and gets paid. Also that when friend does the actual report, he uses the date of the report to file for testing instead of the actual dates the tests were done. I am not concerned on sending notes to medicare. last year medicare required notes from say 10 mental health providers here in our area, and we were the only provider that "passed" with our documentation.
I understand my provider is trying to get more streamed line with income and because we see people from all over our state and even have people coming from out of state.
I am however a bit afraid to try all of these different ways of billing....my red flags are flying high...... this is how I bill- pt comes in for intake , I bill 90801 from that intake they decide if/any tests that will be done. We schedule the patient to come back in for testing, with medicare I know they do not allow 96101 & 96102 in same day. So, for p/p testing patient comes in and completes and for 96102 testing it is scheduled with testing tech. once all testing is complete, the have feedback with MP.