DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2015 Issue 5 (May)

CMS official: Keep using 59, await further instructions on X modifiers

Medicare has issued its clearest instruction yet on the use of the four X modifiers it first unveiled last August: Keep using modifier 59 (Distinct procedural service) until the agency issues additional guidance on the new distinct procedural service modifiers.
 
 

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