Season 10 - Episode 435 - #TerryTuesday: Incident Two, Split Shared Visits, and Why Medical Student Documentation Cannot Be Billed

This episode focuses on a compliance issue that keeps tripping up practices: incident to billing, split shared visits, and the limits of what medical students can document. Sean M Weiss and Terry walk through where the rules apply, where they do not, and why using student documentation to support a billable service is not allowed.Terry also shares a real world question from recent presentations that pushed the conversation into medical student use, supervisory rules, and the risk of stretching billing frameworks beyond their intent. The discussion closes with a cautionary look at fraud, waste, and abuse, plus the importance of proper credentialing and supervision.Key topicsIncident to vs. split shared visitsWhat counts as a shared serviceMedical student documentation is not billableWhat a teaching physician may useWhy cut and paste is not allowedStudents are for education, not revenueEmployment and supervision requirements still matterTelehealth supervision and ancillary servicesFraud, waste, and abuse concerns