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    Wiki NST with inpatient/outpatient stays

    When an OB patient is either admitted to OBED or inpatient and an NST is performed we are coding it with the medical necessity codes and a -26 modifier. Some payers are denying this as global; some are reimbursing. The CCI edits for 59025 show the NST is not reimbursable for inpatient or...
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