ollielooya
True Blue
....can someone please help clarify this even more specificially? "From an NCCI perspective, the definition of different anatomic sites includes different organs or different lesions in the same organ. However, it does not include treatment of contiguous structures of the same organ. For example, treatment of the nail, nail bed, and adjacent soft tissue constitutes a single anatomic site. Treatment of posterior segment structures in the eye constitute a single anatomic site."
So... treatment performed in the supraorbital region and the auriculotemporal region on the same side of the face would NOT be considered a contiguous structure, and therefore use of modifier 59 would be appropriate or would the fact these procedures were all done in the facial region exclude the use of modfier 59? Can someone break this down into even simpler terms? Sometimes the explanations needs explanation!
Suzanne E. Byrum, CPC
So... treatment performed in the supraorbital region and the auriculotemporal region on the same side of the face would NOT be considered a contiguous structure, and therefore use of modifier 59 would be appropriate or would the fact these procedures were all done in the facial region exclude the use of modfier 59? Can someone break this down into even simpler terms? Sometimes the explanations needs explanation!
Suzanne E. Byrum, CPC