The Hotel was centrally located, in fact it was an easy walk from the hotel to the Parkway. There could not have been an easier place to get to or to stay in Pigeon Forge. The Hotel Staff were truly wonderful from the moment you check in to the moment you check out. They have the customer service thing on...
But when billed as incident-to, Medicare pays at 100% of the physicianâs fee schedule because the visit falls under the physicianâs NPI. The Medicare criteria for incident-to billing are not well understood by most physicians, so we will try to clear up any confusion.
Our audit covered $13,650,002 in Medicare payments to the Hospital for 1,584 claims that were. potentially at risk for billing errors. We selected for review a stratified random sample of 236. paid claims with payments totaling $3,348,960.