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Don't Get Left in Denial – Make the Right Modifier 50 Choice Every Time

Published on Thu Feb 20, 2020

These 3 tips will keep payers on your side. Modifier 50 (Bilateral procedure) is one of those modifiers that always seems to create problems for coders. That’s because it is not the only modifier you can use to indicate when your provider has performed a procedure on both sides of a patient’s body. For example, suppose your physician removes impacted [...]
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