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Lisfranc Procedures:

Optimize Your Lisfranc Op Note With This Advice Before You Code Another Claim

Published on Tue Oct 14, 2014

If your Medicare carrier requires modifier 76 instead of 59, here’s what to do. When you code Lisfranc fracture-dislocation repairs, remember that your coding options rest on whether the surgeon performed the surgery open or percutaneously. Unless you know which method the podiatrist used, you’ll be in limbo between two coding options. Lisfranc fracture-dislocations are multiple fractures and/or dislocations of [...]
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