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Don’t Forget Modifier on This Holter Monitoring Claim

Published on Wed Aug 24, 2022

Question: My cardiologist has been performing Holter monitoring. I see in the code descriptors for 93224-93227 that I should report these codes when my cardiologist performs up to 48 hours of continuous recording. However, a colleague mentioned that we needed to append a modifier to the Holter code if our cardiologist uses a Holter monitor for less than 12 hours. Can [...]
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