General Surgery Coding Alert

Bilateral Surgery:

4 Tips Help You Capture 'Both Sides' Pay

Decode LT/RT, 50 modifier choices. Your general surgeon might perform procedures on a patient’s left and right sides on the same day, but there’s no hard and fast rule about how you should code those procedures. That’s because the procedures themselves are different — some are inherently bilateral and some are not — and because payer rules for billing bilateral [...]
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