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Check Necessity of Modifier to Separate Components of PFT

Published on Fri May 31, 2013

Question: Can you bill ‘94620’ along with a full PFT, codes ‘94060’, ‘94726’ and ‘94729’? It is an interpretation only so a 26 modifier is used. The diagnosis used by the physician was the same for all testing. We were told in a seminar that we could use a 59 modifier to get everything paid but they are still being [...]
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