tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 6

Bilateral Surgery: 4 Tips Help You Capture 'Both Sides' Pay

Decode LT/RT, 50 modifier choices. Your general surgeon might perform procedures on a patient’s left and right sides on the same day, but there’s no hard and fast rule about how you should code those procedures. That’s because the procedures themselves are different — some are inherently bilateral and some are not — and because payer rules for billing bilateral services are all over the map. If you make a billing mistake, you could be leaving your surgeon’s well-deserved pay on the table.  Look at the following tips to make sure that your bilateral...

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