The physician can sign the chart of a patient seen by a mid level and it is not fraud. It can also be billed fully at 100% if it is coded as a simple case, and at 85% or so if it is a more complex case (and the MD didn't see the pt). What you're saying just isn't true. It's only fraud if the physicians attestation falsely claims that they actually saw the patient and they did not.
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The physician can sign the chart of a patient seen by a mid level and it is not fraud. It can also be billed fully at 100% if it is coded as a simple case, and at 85% or so if it is a more complex case (and the MD didn't see the pt). What you're saying just isn't true. It's only fraud if the physicians attestation falsely claims that they actually saw the patient and they did not.