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Mix These Modifiers, Make a Medicare Mess

Published on Wed Oct 13, 2021

Question: Our physician performed trigger finger injections on the middle fingers of a patient’s right and left hands. The patient was also treated for another, separate condition during the office visit. We billed the encounter this way: 99213/25 20550/RT-F7 20550/59-LT J1040x2 The third line was denied, so we resubmitted with 20550/59-f2 and 20550/xs-lt, which were also not paid. Can this [...]
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