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Modifier Update:

2017: You Can No Longer Afford a Miss on the JW Modifier

Published on Tue Feb 14, 2017

Limit wasted drug policy to only single use vials and containers. The beginning of the New Year marks the dawn of the JW (Drug amount discarded/not administered to any patient) modifier mandate. Medicare has a clear directive on the essential use of the JW modifier on all claims with wasted quantities of drugs. This implies that you will now need [...]
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