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Make Modifier 25 Your Constant Companion When Considering Multi-Code Claims

Published on Tue Mar 22, 2016

Documentation is the key to claims with separate E/Ms. Coders that hope to report E/M services correctly when the provider performs multiple services during the same encounter need to know modifier 25 in and out. Why? Failure to use modifier 25 (Significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service by the same physician or other qualified health care professional on the [...]
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