2019 Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference

Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants: Emerging Compliance Issues for Hospitals

  • Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants: Emerging Compliance Issues for Hospitals

    Carolyn Buppert, Attorney, Law Office of Carolyn Buppert. Elizabeth Skinner, Regional Corporate Responsibility Officer, AdventHealth.

    November 4, 2019

    • Compliance professionals must understand billing requirements when the rendering clinician is a nurse practitioner or physician assistant and when clinical work is shared with physicians

    • Hospitals should not allow their employed nurse practitioners and physician assistants to be utilized by self-employed physicians. It’s a Stark Law problem

    • New state and CDC guidelines on prescribing opioids have opened up a new line of fraud cases involving nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Compliance professionals should have general knowledge of state and national guidelines for prescribing

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