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Look Towards Modifier 25 to Procure Deserved E/M Reimbursement

Published on Thu Dec 24, 2015

If you’re wondering if you should use this modifier, ask yourself these four questions. When your physician performs a procedure and a separate evaluation and management (E/M) service for the same patient during the same encounter, you should look at situations when you might be able to report both the E/M code and the procedure code together. When? The E/M [...]
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