CPT Knowledgebase - Jan 22, 2007

For diagnostic purposes, the physician closed the patient's lacrimal puncta with a collagen plug for dry-eye syndrome. A week later, the lacrimal puncta was therapeutically closed with a silicone plug. Is it appropriate to append modifier 76, Repeat procedure by same physician, to the second procedure code (ie, 68761) to indicate that this is a repeat procedure by the same physician?

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