DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 11 (November)

80% of 2008 PQRI modifiers were ‘action not performed, reason not specified'

Your peers got a lot of mileage out of modifier 8P (action not performed, reason not otherwise specified) last year. It was reported nearly 1.9 million times during the 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), but this won't be raising any auditor eyebrows. Use of the 8P is completely appropriate within PQRI, a CMS official says in an email to Part B News.

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