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Home in on Modifier Specifics With These Examples

Published on Wed Apr 07, 2021

Remember which modifier to use for each type of stopped procedure. Do the rules surrounding modifiers 52 (Reduced services) and 53 (Discontinued procedure) still have your head spinning? You’re not alone; many a coder has gotten confused where one, or both, of these modifiers is concerned. Help’s here: To provide some real-world application, we asked Yvonne Dillon, CPC, CEDC, to [...]
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