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"X" Marks the Spot With New HCPCS Modifiers To Identify A Distinct Service

Published on Wed Sep 24, 2014

Check out these four new modifiers for 2015 as an alternative to reporting 59 Your coding for separate and distinct services next year in the ED will get at lot more interesting, as you’ll need to choose a specific code for the reason for the distinct service.  The skinny: CMS released Transmittal 1422 in August which introduced four new HCPCS [...]
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