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Have Complication Claims? Study Modifier 78 Guidelines

Published on Thu Dec 17, 2015

Don’t shortchange your “return to the OR” fee. When complications from an initial procedure cause your orthopedic surgeon to perform a follow-up procedure for a Medicare patient, you may be able to report the followup separately. How? If the follow-up procedure was serious enough that the orthopedic surgeon had to perform it in an operating room (OR) or suite (hospital [...]
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