michelle.stepp
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I have a physician that always dictates his op reports with a "cosurgeon/assistant". When do I use the cosurgeon modifier instead of the assistant modifier. I have a coding with modifier's book, and it is giving me mixed signals. From what I understand, if one physician does one portion or the surgery, and the other physician does a different portion of the surgery, then they assist each other. If they both do different portions of the same procedure, then it's cosurgery. Is this correct? Also, it mentions something in there about the physicians being of the same specialty in order to use the cosurgeon modifier, is this correct? Please help. Thanks.