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Dig Into Your 'G' Codes and 'C' Modifiers When Reporting Stress Incontinence Physiotherapy

Published on Fri Feb 10, 2017

Forget the ‘G’ code and you’ll be denied. When your urologist orders physiotherapy for a female patient with stress urinary incontinence (N39.3, Stress incontinence [female] [male]), don’t forget to assign one of three G codes to the claim: G8990 — Other physical or occupational therapy primary functional limitation, current status, at therapy episode outset and at reporting intervals G8991 — [...]
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