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Here's How to Get Those “Delivery Only” Claims Right — The First Time

Published on Fri Aug 07, 2020

Challenge yourself to see whether your delivery skills need brushing up. A delivery claim doesn’t always mean reporting a global obstetric code. Sometimes you’ll encounter scenarios where your ob-gyn or nurse performed a delivery only, and you have to itemize this service. Find out how to report delivery codes, and when you should apply modifiers like 51, 59 and 22 [...]
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