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General Surgery Coding Alert

Master Modifiers:

Choose Between 52, 53 for Halted Surgery

Published on Tue Apr 20, 2021

The devil is in the ‘stopped service’ details. When your surgeon has to stop a surgery before completing the procedure, his efforts don’t have to be a total loss. But managing the claim to get the pay you deserve depends on deploying one of two modifiers based on the details of the case. Read on to get our experts’ advice [...]
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