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Even CMS Advises Waiting to Use X{EPSU} Modifiers

Published on Thu Apr 30, 2015

There is ‘no benefit’ to using the new modifiers at this point, government reps say. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created the X{EPSU} modifiers to cut down on overuse of modifier 59—but now the agency is advising practices to stick with 59 for the time being. Background: Last summer, CMS announced that it was debuting four “X” [...]
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