Medical Claims and Billing

February 20, 2010

Tips on Locum Tenens

Filed under: Coding Tips — Tags: , — Coder @ 6:34 pm

Locum tenens is a confusing situation in the case where a physician takes a vacation or otherwise isn’t available and hires a physician to see patients on site, Medicare can deny the claim unless it is properly documented. The reason is that Medicare is very strict about seeing specific modifiers on medical billing claims that involve a substitute or locum tenens physician. (more…)

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