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Pathology/Lab Coding Alert

Lab Modifiers:

Make Payer Rules Your Bottom Line for 59, 91, 76, and More

Published on Tue Jul 15, 2014

Don’t rely on definitions alone. You can parse the CPT® modifier descriptors and scratch your head all you want, but you’ll never avoid denials for multiple units of lab or pathology services if you ignore payer instruction. If your pathologist or lab performs multiple units of a single CPT® code for the same patient on the same day, we have [...]
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