Updates for Non-Physician Practitioners for 2026

What your Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Should Know

As Non-Physician Practitioners (NPPs) [Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants] have increased their presence in the medical community, unique situations continue to arise that raise new questions. What to document? Who can document? Who can bill for a service? All questions that need to be answered and understood by both staff and providers. 

CPT changes from the 2021 changes to Office and Other Outpatient Services and the subsequent 2023 changes to Hospital Inpatient and Observation services continue to be defined and discovered. The September 2025 Medicare Medlearn Evaluation & Management Guide has given several pages of detailed explanation in billing Critical Care services, for example. New CPT codes for 2026 for shorter-duration remote monitoring need to be looked at for their inclusion into services that NPPs can perform. 

Webinar Objectives

• Incident to services, often misunderstood – what documentation is needed by the physician to qualify for a “plan of care” to be followed
• Split-shared services – defining substantive
• Why facility offices aren’t like regular offices in how NPPs practice

Webinar Highlights

• Incident to Services – Documentation and Billing in 2026
• Split Shared Services – Documentation and Billing in 2026
• Provider-based billing – how it affects how an NPP provides services
• Critical Care Services – Information from CMS’s new E&M Services guide tells us
• New monitoring codes for 2026. Can NPPs perform these services and others

Who Should Attend

Coders, Billers, Auditors, Office Managers, Office Administrators, Physician Assistants, Physicians