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Keep This Table Close To Aid ABN-Related Modifier Choice

Published on Wed Jul 22, 2015

Medicare also has modifiers for when you aren’t obligated to provide an ABN. When your physician provides a service to a Medicare patient that the payer might not cover, your practice will need to: 1. Get a signed advance beneficiary notice (ABN) on file, if necessary, and 2. Append the proper modifier based on the encounter notes. Use this: Check [...]
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