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Let These Lists Keep Your 25 and 57 Claims Straight

Published on Tue Jun 14, 2016

Check these points to choose correctly. It’s not unusual for coders – or providers – to sometimes mix up when to append modifier 25 (Significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service by the same physician or other qualified healthcare professional on the same day of the procedure or other service) versus modifier 57 (Decision for surgery). Remember these points to [...]
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