vascular surgery coding question

[humowitz@sbcglobal.net]

hi..trying to help my coworker out. We billed CPT's 37191 and 37193 together. 37191 was denied as bundled. Can we add modifier 59 to the 37191? I cant find the website where you can plug in the CPT codes to see if they can be billed together. Thanks

 

[Orthocoderpgu]

https://www.cms.gov/license/ama?file=/files/zip/ccipra-v290r1-f1.zip

About 95% of the time the NCCI edits allow a modifier -59. However, that is not really the issue here. To keep compliant, you have to answer the question: Does the documentation support both codes? And yes, in this case a modifier is allowed.