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Grab Deserved Dollars on Multiple Excisions

Published on Wed May 24, 2017

You’ll use modifiers 59, 51—depending on payer preference. If a patient reports for removal of multiple lesions, you need to check if the removals are of the same type or from the same part of the body. Rationale: Some of these claims will result in multiple codes, while others will require you to add total repair length and code based [...]
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