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Coding Basics:

Make Better Modifier 59 Habits This Year

Published on Tue Mar 09, 2021

Avoid common, costly billing errors. Payers never stop scrutinizing claims that list “separate and distinct” services, thanks to perpetually high Office Inspector General (OIG)error rates for such billing. When you have a lab claim that includes procedures that the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) bundles as procedure-to-procedure (PTP) code edits, you’ll need a modifier to override the edit pair, when [...]
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