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Wiki Digital X-ray VS Computed X-ray

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One of our offices recently acquired a digital x-ray system, while the other still has the cassette system. When billing Medicare for x-rays, we bill for the technical component and send the x-rays out to be read by another company. Should I be using different modifiers to distinguish which type of system was used. Example: for a chest x-ray, 2 view, I usually bill 71046 TC.
 
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Effective January 1, 2018, for the technical component, hospital outpatient facilities are required to use modifier "FY" (X-ray taken using computed radiography technology/cassette-based imaging) along with TC modifier.
 
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