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Examine Your X-Ray Coding With These Expert Answers

Published on Thu Feb 25, 2016

Check your answers to the quiz on page 11. How did you do? Find out below. Beef Up Your Bilateral Expertise Answer 1: The statement that you should use modifier 50 (Bilateral procedure) on all bilateral x-ray claims is false. Although your payer may sometimes require you to use modifier 50 for bilateral claims, this is not true for all [...]
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