Cardiology Coding Alert

Reader Questions:

Train Staff on Proper Modifier Use

Question: We recently performed a self-audit and found that there are certain issues that our staff members have repeatedly that they don’t seem to ever stop making. For instance, one coder always reports the office place of service, even when encounters take place in the hospital. And one physician always confuses modifiers 24 and 25. Is there a workaround for [...]
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