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Reduce Your Confusion Around Modifiers 52 and 53

Published on Wed Feb 07, 2024

Also: know which one could even apply to a wastage situation. As you know, modifiers are useful because they provide the payer additional information for processing a claim. However, when you’re dealing with different services, procedures, and payers, appending the incorrect modifier can sometimes be the reason a claim is denied. Denials are particularly common when coders start appending modifiers [...]
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