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Wiki Volume 3 procedure code modifiers?

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i AM BRAND NEW TO FACILITY CODING AND AM COMPLETELY CONFUSED WITH THE MODIFIER ISSUE IN VOLUME 3 PROCEDURES CODING!!! :-(

In reporting Volume 3 ICD-9 Procedure Code 20.01 for a myringotomy with tubes, done bilaterally, PLACE OF SERVICE: outpatient hospital surgery, HOW DO i INDICATE ITS A BILATERAL PROCEDURE? wITH A MODIFIER? OR DO i REPORT IT TWICE?

Help asap?!

Janice
 
If you are coding for the outpatient facility you do not use Volume 3 for your procedure codes, you use CPT codes. Volume 3 are used for inpatent procedures only. and no modifiers are ever used on Volume 3 codes.
 
Janice:

Some facilities (hospitals) collect all their procedural data in ICD-9 Volume III, although they may bill through CPT/HCPCS.

Based on the Faye Brown literature, you report bilateral procedures in ICD procedures by coding it twice.

ICD-9 procedural coding system is not built to have modifiers appended to it.

Good luck to you.
 
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