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Handy FAQs Test Your Modifier 62 Smarts

Published on Tue Mar 02, 2021

Make sure CPT® and ICD-10-CM codes match for both co-surgeons. A new subscriber recently wrote in, asking about how to correctly use modifier 62 (Two surgeons). You may need to use this modifier if your cardiologist works together as a co-surgeon with another surgeon to perform one procedure. However, modifiers can be tricky. For example, modifier 62 comes with very [...]
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