CPT Knowledgebase - Mar 30, 2012

If the patient returns to the office during the postoperative period for a related procedure and also has a problem-focused E/M service for a different reason, how is this reported? Is it appropriate to append modifier 58 to the procedure and also append modifier 25 to the E/M service to indicate that it was a separate E/M service?

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