DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 12 (December)

Use modifier KX when patient's gender conflicts with the service provided

Append modifier KX (requirements specified in the medical policy have been met) to services you know will be denied because the patient's gender conflicts with the service provided. KX is a modifier you'd use to identify services provided to transgender, ambiguous genitalia and hermaphrodite patients, CMS states in Transmittal 1839 to the Medicare Claims Processing Manual.

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