Use modifier -59 to overturn edits before July 1 If your gastroenterology office is reporting additional sequential IV pushes with chemotherapy or other drug administration codes, your life just got a lot easier. But NCCI version 11.2, which takes effect July 1, will delete those edits retroactive to April 1.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it will revoke five controversial edits governing drug administration code G0354 (Each additional sequential intravenous push). The National Correct Coding Initiative version 11.1, implemented April 1, bundled G0354 with five codes:
Until that change takes effect, you can use modifier -59 (Distinct procedural service) "to indicate that there was a separate sequential infusion of a different drug or the same drug at a different time," CMS says. Or you can just wait until after July 1 to submit claims from May or June, and the carriers won't apply the edits at all.