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Add Modifiers 24 and 27 to Your Choices for Bypassing CCI Edits

Published on Fri Jan 04, 2013

Plus: You can also override bundles with modifiers LM and RI Coders learned years ago that if a CCI edit indicator is listed as "1," you can separate the bundle (and report both procedure codes) using modifier 59 "or another suitable modifier." You’ll have more possibilities for what’s considered "another suitable modifier" in 2013, thanks to CMS introducing four more [...]
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