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Bilateral Billing:

Overcome Modifier 50 vs. LT/RT Confusion By Researching Payer Policy

Published on Wed Mar 19, 2014

Varied policies aren’t just limited to private payers.  There are many procedures that your urologist may perform on both sides of the patient’s body, and sometimes it seems that there are just as many rules about how to report those bilateral services. Different payers want you to report bilateral services in different ways. Review the following rules to help make [...]
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