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Payer's Policy Should Guide Your 27/57 Decision

Published on Thu Oct 26, 2017

Coding E/M-fracture care? You'll need one of these E/M modifiers. When your physician provides intraoperative fracture care for a patient, he will very likely perform a separate E/M prior to the fracture care. How you'll report this separate E/M depends entirely on the payer, however. Check out what the pros had to say about how to separately code an E/M [...]
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