Derms do Rad Onc

Here are the recent office notes from a dermatologist. He's doing all the rad onc billing, as a derm (and getting paid too I presume). Billing for weekly 77427. Billing a daily sim (77280) and G6001. Literally doing IGRT for simple skin cancer. Only in America. This is a Medicare patient. When a Medicare patient gets billed for radiation therapy treatment, does CMS have the bandwidth/subtlety to know that it's derm doing the billing and not rad onc? The majority of radiation fractions... Read more
Source: Student Doctor Network - Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums