AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 1 (January)
Surgery: Eye and Ocular Adnexa (January 2007)
January 2007 page 28d Coding Communication:Surgery: Eye and Ocular Adnexa Question For diagnostic purposes, the physician closed the patient's lacrimal puncta with a collagen plug for dry-eye syndrome. A week later, the lacrimal puncta was therapeutically closed with a silicone plug. Is it appropriate to append modifier 76, Repeat procedure by same physician, to the second procedure code (ie, 68761) to indicate that this is a repeat procedure by the same physician? AMA Comment No. Modifier 76 is not appended because the two services, although both are reported with code 68761, Closure of the lacrimal punctum; by plug, each...
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