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Remove These Codes and Modifiers to Report This Newborn Encounter

Published on Tue Sep 15, 2020

Question: On date of service 7/20, our pediatrician removed digits from a newborn’s right and left hands and right and left feet — no bone was removed during the procedure. Then 7/21, she performed a circumcision with a 99462, which was followed by a discharge on 7/22 that lasted less than 30 minutes. I want to bill: 26587-F4 26587-F9 26587-T4 [...]
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