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Dislocated Hip Prosthesis

Published on Fri Mar 01, 2002

Test your coding knowledge.  Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the box below for the answer.
Question: My physician reduced a dislocated total hip prosthesis twice after the initial reduction, for a total of three reductions. I appended a modifier to the second and third reductions, but have been denied by Medicare. What did I do wrong?

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