HCPro, JustCoding Outpatient - 2016 Issue 3 (January)

Distinguish between modifiers -73 and -74 for discontinued procedures

January 19th, 2016

Hospital coders can choose multiple modifiers to apply to a procedure code if the service was discontinued. Susan E. Garrison, CHCA, CHCAS, CCS-P, CHC, PCS, FCS, CPAR, CPC, CPC-H, provides an overview of these codes and in which instances to use them. 

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