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This process usually takes around 30 days. When billing for traditional Medicare (Parts A and B), billers will follow the same protocol as for private, third-party payers, and input patient information, NPI numbers, procedure codes, diagnosis codes, price, and Place of Service codes.
When Medicare is billed incident to for nonphysician practitioner (NPP) services, the bill goes out under the physician's NPI number, even though the midlevel has performed the work. Reimbursement is 100 percent of the Medicare fee schedule, as opposed to 85 percent when the service is billed under the midlevel's own number.