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Modifiers–The Rest of the Story
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Modifiers–The Rest of the Story
4 AAPC 1-800-626-CODE (2633) telling a unique patient’s story and when modifiers are cor- rectly utilized, they provide significant additional informa- tion related to the services billed. Repeat Procedures There are instances that for quality patient care the same service must occur more than one time on a specific day. This may be a lab service, a diagnostic service, or a proce- dure. It may be completed by the same physician or a dif- ferent physician. The risk when this occurs is that the claim will be denied inappropriately because it is thought to be a duplicate procedure. A modifier must be utilized to identify that it is not a duplicate but was actually a medically necessary repeated procedure. Modifier 76 and 77 Modifier 76 and 77 are similar modifiers. Modifier 76 identifies when a repeat procedure is performed by the same physician, same patient, same day. Modifier 77 identifies when a repeat procedure is performed by differ- ent physicians, but on the same patient and the same day. Modifier 76 and 77 are necessary anytime a repeat pro- cedure is performed on a patient to identify that it is not a duplicate, but that the actual procedure was performed more than one time. Choosing between the two modifiers is dependent upon whether it was the same or a different physician. When these modifiers are not used, the claim will often be interpreted as a duplicate and inappropriately denied. One example: A patient in the office has a very low pulse oxygen level and her asthma is exacerbated and a nebulizer treatment is performed. The oxygen saturation is again measured and while better is still lower than the physician would like to see, so a second treatment is given. When this occurs, modifier 76 is necessary on the second nebu- lizer treatment to show it was not a duplicate, but a repeat procedure. Chart documentation must support that it was medically necessary and support that the service was per- formed twice during the visit. Another instance where these modifiers would be neces- sary is in the case of a patient who is in the emergency department and has an abnormal electrocardiogram (EKG) performed at 10 a.m. He has a repeat EKG a few hours later in the day to compare the results to try to confirm an abnormality and, possibly, an occurring acute myocar- dial infarction. The EKG in the morning was interpreted by Dr. Smith, and Dr. Jones interpreted the EKG in the afternoon. These two physicians are partners in the same cardiology practice. In this instance, modifier 77 would have to be utilized on the interpretation of Dr. Jones to capture that it was a repeat procedure performed by a dif- ferent physician. Modifier 91 Download 0.66 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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