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Answer 1: Appendix A in the CPT® code book explains that modifiers:
1. Provide “the means to report or indicate that a service or procedure that has been performed has been altered by some specific circumstance but not changed in its definition or code,” and
2. “Enable health care professionals to effectively respond to payment policy requirements established by other entities.”
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