DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2021 Issue 10 (October)
Providers are using modifier 78 less, and getting fewer denials
It looks as if providers have cut way back on their use of modifier 78 (Unplanned return to the operating room by the same physician fol-lowing initial procedure for a related procedure during the postoperative period). In 2019, the modifier appeared on a mere 94,255 claims, a major drop from 2015, when it was claimed more than 531,000 times.
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