AMA CPT® Assistant - 2001 Issue 12 (December)
Modifiers -25 and -27 for Hospital Outpatient Use (December 2001)
December 2001 pages 4-5 Coding Communication Modifiers -25 and -27 for Hospital Outpatient Use Modifier -27, Multiple Outpatient Hospital E/M Encounters on the Same Date, was added to the CPT 2001 book to delineate a hospital facility reporting circumstance wherein a patient receives multiple evaluation and management (E/M) services in multiple outpatient hospital settings on a single date of service. The intent of this modifier is to assist in reporting the utilization of hospital resources related to separate and distinct E/M encounters performed for the same patient and provided by the same or different physician(s) in more than one...
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