Wiki Modifier-done post biopsy

[GeriDe]

What Modifier can you use when a Mammo is done post biopsy. (Patient had a MM pre biopsy and then again for clip placement post)

 

[balamuruganm]

Modifier

Postbiopsy Mammograms
According to the ACR, postbiopsy mammograms are performed to verify the clip deployment, document the exact location of the clip in relation to the biopsied cavity, and look for postbiopsy complications. Prior to this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took the position that this service should always be included in the guidance for the biopsy. However, chapter 9 of the 2014 NCCI policy manual was revised to state, ?If a breast biopsy, needle localization wire, metallic localization clip, or other breast procedure is performed with mammographic guidance (eg, 19281, 19282), the physician should not separately report a post procedure mammography code (eg, 77051, 77052, 77055-77057, G0202 to G0206) for the same patient encounter. The radiologic guidance codes include all imaging by the defined modality required to perform the procedure.? - See more at:

REF:
http://www.radiologytoday.net/archive/rt0814p10.shtml#sthash.FuZ02QUI.dpuf