DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2015 Issue 5 (May)

Remind providers that P status impacts payment

To drive home the importance of P status modifiers, remind your anesthesia providers that many private payers recognize them as payment codes and assign additional base units. If you can’t select diagnosis codes that support higher-level P modifiers, they’ll miss out on payments (see Mind your modifiers: Use the new physical status examples to be sure the chart supports necessity):

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