Covid-19 has forced a lot of changes for healthcare providers to meet their compliance requirements and mandates when it comes to physician supervision along with other areas. Compliant & well-documented supervision by a physician is the key to decide the condition of payment and criterion for medical necessity and quality of care for many different Medicare-covered services. CMS has become very strict when it comes to documentation supporting physician supervision in recent times. The documentation requirements laid down by CMS are way more complex than believed to be. Failing to comply has also resulted in the suspension of billing privileges along with hefty fines. This session is designed to help you understand the various CMS definitions of physician supervision and help you identify the types of Medicare-covered services and Medicare providers/suppliers that require physician supervision, such as clinics, non-physician practitioners, infusion services, radiation and physical therapy, diagnostic testing facilities, suppliers, etc.? ?

Agenda:-

The following agenda will be discussed in detail during this session :

• Recent CMS Regulations for General, Direct, and Personal Physician Supervision
• Regulatory changes CMS made to the supervision requirements
• Understanding which services require which level of physician supervision in 2021
• Can auditors go back in time to verify proper physician supervision?
• Differences between services furnished in hospital vs. non-hospital settings
• What qualifications does CMS require of supervising physicians?
• How can you document physician supervision?
• How do NCDs and LCDs affect physician supervision?
• The interplay between National and Local Coverage Determinations requiring physician supervision
• Expected changes in the near future.
• Audits and enforcement activities focusing on physician supervision
• Guidelines to be followed to ensure accurate documentation for meeting the supervisory requirements.
• Understand the enforcement activities of the federal government
• FAQs & Resources