Wiki Digital X-ray VS Computed X-ray

[LYNNRAFFERTY]

One of our offices recently acquired a digital x-ray system, while the other still has the cassette system. When billing Medicare for x-rays, we bill for the technical component and send the x-rays out to be read by another company. Should I be using different modifiers to distinguish which type of system was used. Example: for a chest x-ray, 2 view, I usually bill 71046 TC.

 

[luhre]

coding data analyst

Effective January 1, 2018, for the technical component, hospital outpatient facilities are required to use modifier "FY" (X-ray taken using computed radiography technology/cassette-based imaging) along with TC modifier.

 

[lindsaydellavella]

The previous comment is correct about adding the FY modifier.

https://www.acr.org/Advocacy-and-Ec...-17-2018-Issue/CMS-Issues-Billing-Modifier-FY

Lindsay Della Vella BS, COC
www.midnightmedicalcoding.com