I met with my biller this morning to talk about means of getting paid for the work I do coordinating Home Health Nurses at a local Independent Living Facility.
Basically, I have to:
Document time spent in doing each activity.
Make sure that activity does not occur 24 hours before, or after, I see the patient, or it doesn't count.
At the end of the month, count up the time spent on each patient.
If it amounts to more than 15 minutes, I can bill for it, if I can produce some kind of documentation that supports my "alleged" story that I was "allegedly" helping someone.
She wanted a little note for each superbill I turned in, summarizing my activities, plus an ICD-9 code or two, if possible, in case I got audited.
She suggested making myself a little Excel file to keep track of my time, but I think I can coerce Amazing Charts into keeping track of this for me.
My comment was, "You can tell that they don't want to pay me for doing this."
