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Friday, June 10, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Indirect Billing
Care provided by nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) can be billed to Medicare directly or under the name of a supervising physician, referred to as indirect billing.

The latter practice obfuscates the amount of care delivered by these providers.

In a recent article, Sadiq Patel and coauthors use a novel technique to determine that the number of indirectly billed visits by NPs and PAs in fee-for-service Medicare grew from 10.9 million in 2010 to 30.6 million in 2018.

The authors find substantial geographic variation in indirect billing, with much greater use of indirect billing in states with restricted scope-of-practice laws for NPs.

Listen to Patel’s coauthor, Ateev Mehrotra, discuss their paper with Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil on the most recent episode of A Health Podyssey.

Next week, Patel will dive into the methods and findings of this research with Health Affairs Executive Editor Don Metz during June’s virtual Journal Club, which is open to Health Affairs Insiders.
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Headlines: Monkeypox, Medicare Trustees Report & Nursing Home Workforce Shortages

Listen to Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Ellen Bayer go over the big health policy headlines from this week, including what we know about monkeypox, the implications of the latest Medicare Trustees Report, and nursing home workforce shortages.
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What We're Reading

When we're not reading Health Affairs, we're looking at the headlines to keep track of how the health care and health policy space is changing. Here are some of the stories that caught our attention today.

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