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Influenza Testing:

Safeguard Your Second-Strain Flu Testing Payment With These Tips

Published on Wed May 13, 2015

Ask your payer before appending modifier QW to 87804. You have to determine whether you can report two line items of the same code if your physicians perform two separate tests to screen for two different strains of the flu. This is a burning topic as practices struggle to collect for multiple units of 87804 (Infectious agent antigen detection by [...]
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