DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2019 Issue 6 (June)

Big operations (total knee, shoulder) do well with 22, but what’s with the heat lamp?

Modifier 22 (Increased procedural services) doesn't get claimed a lot. But on some of procedures for which it’s most often used — the ones for which you can easily see how extra work would be required — it has low denial rates. And there are some codes with 22 for which you have to wonder what the billers were thinking.
 

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