Scrubs & Suits: Billing & Coding Guidelines: On Modifier 25
- By admin aapc
- In AAPC In The News
- November 18, 2011
- 2 Comments
“Confusion has surrounded the appropriate use of modifier 25 for a very long time,” says Brenda Edwards CPC, CPMA, CPC-I, CEMC in a recent posting on the health care site Scrubs and Suits. “The description for modifier 25 is a “significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service by the same physician on the same day of the procedure or other service,” she adds. The article also talks about the most frequent uses for the modifier as an E/M same-day procedure.
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