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[dalanicks@aol.com]

i have a silly question, in the cci edits from medicare, when it says standard of medical/surgical practice does that mean you can add modifier 59 to the code in the second column, or if anyone knows where I can get a list of what they mean, thank you

 

[mhstrauss]

i have a silly question, in the cci edits from medicare, when it says standard of medical/surgical practice does that mean you can add modifier 59 to the code in the second column, or if anyone knows where I can get a list of what they mean, thank you

See the "Correspondence Language Manual" found here, under Downloads. It has great examples of when you should/shouldn't use mod 59....Plenty of other great info on the NCCI Edits also!


https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding...ndex.html?redirect=/nationalcorrectcodinited/

HTH!