Becker’s ASC Review compiled a timeline of significant medical coding updates that have been proposed or implemented so far this year: CMS began paying for certain angioplasty and stenting procedures ...
2. Under-utilization of -59: It’s not taboo. When the Medicare edits (NCCI) correct coding modifier indicator (i.e., 1) allows a modifier to indicate a “separate” and “distinct” procedure, users may ...