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Modify Your Understanding of Reporting Wastage with JZ and JW

Published on Tue Jan 09, 2024

Also: Use this clinical example to help you calculate wastage. On Jan. 1, 2023, Medicare introduced modifier JZ (Zero drug amount discarded/not administered to any patient). The modifier has been in use for over a year now, but many coders are still questioning when and how to report JW (Drug amount discarded/not administered to any patient) versus JZ. If you [...]
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