nc_coder
Expert
We did a bilateral hand xray. The description of the code does not say anything about bilateral. Does anyone know if it is ok to file a modifier 50 with 73120?
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Wiki Bilateral xray
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dballard2004
True Blue
I will wager an opinion here.
I think this will be payer specific. Medicare will accept modifier 50 for bilateral x-rays, but it can vary with commercial payers. You may need to add LT and RT instead.
Unless you have specific guidance from the payer here, I would lean towards the conservative side and bill LT and RT just to be safe. So, you would report:
73120 LT
73120 RT
Hope this helps and again this is my opinion.
I think this will be payer specific. Medicare will accept modifier 50 for bilateral x-rays, but it can vary with commercial payers. You may need to add LT and RT instead.
Unless you have specific guidance from the payer here, I would lean towards the conservative side and bill LT and RT just to be safe. So, you would report:
73120 LT
73120 RT
Hope this helps and again this is my opinion.