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Focus on Modifiers:

Find the Best Choice for Your Surgeons’ Partial Services

Published on Tue Apr 19, 2022

Use this modifier for one side of a bilateral service. When you can’t quite report a procedure code because it describes more than your surgeon actually performed, do you know which modifier can get you out of the bind? Let our experts guide you through several examples of partial service cases with a toolkit of modifiers to describe every scenario [...]
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