tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2003 Issue 12

Self-Quiz: Test Your Selection Savvy: -58, -78 or -79?

Here's your chance to apply the information you have learned about selecting modifiers -58, -78 and -79. Take this quiz to fine-tune your coding skills. Scenario 1: A 45-year-old patient has surgery for an initial inguinal hernia (49505, Repair initial inguinal hernia, age 5 years or over; reducible). The patient fails to care for the surgical wound properly, and 10 days later (within the 90-day global period of the initial surgery) returns to the surgeon's office with serious, deep infection at the incision site. To treat the infection, the surgeon must return the patient to the operating room...

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