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tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 11
PART B SELF-TEST: Test Your Selection Savvy--Modifier 58 Or 78?
Determine whether you can select the appropriate modifierHere's your chance to apply the information you have learned about selecting modifiers 58 and 78. 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 initial surgery's 90-day global period) returns to the surgeon's office with serious, deep infection at the incision site. To treat the in-fection, the surgeon must return the patient to...
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