Mythbusters:
Unpack These 3 Myths to Unbundle Procedures Correctly
Published on Wed Nov 20, 2019
Understand the wrong, and the right, ways to use modifier 59. Like many coders, you’ve probably come to think of modifier 59 (Distinct procedural service) as the “unbundling modifier.” That’s because it is one of the first modifiers you think to use when you have to unbundle National Correct Coding Institute (NCCI) procedure-to-procedure (PTP) edit pairs. Indeed, “the 59 modifier [...]