AMA CPT® Assistant - 1997 Issue 9 (September)

Readers Respond to Faxback Survey on Modifiers (September 1997)

September 1997 pages 6-7 Coding Communication Readers Respond to Faxback Survey on Modifiers We hear all kinds of tales about payors and modifiers. From a CPT coding perspective, the intent of the modifiers is to provide a means by which a practitioner can indicate that a service or procedure was altered by specific circumstances but was not changed in its definition or code. To try to get some insight into this subject, we published another of our faxback surveys in our May 1997 issue. Results Although the actual number of complete surveys we received was relatively low (N=112), the...

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