DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2019 Issue 2 (February)

Denial rates favor NPP surgical assistants over physicians for common procedures

When it comes to documenting a helping hand during common surgical procedures, practices tend to turn to modifier AS (Physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist services for assistant at surgery) rather than a range of CPT assistant-surgical modifiers — and find success in doing so.

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