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AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 2 (February)
Medicine: Neurology and Neuromuscular Procedures (Q&A) (February 2012)
February 2012 page 11c
Medicine: Neurology and Neuromuscular Procedures
Question: For facility reporting, may code 93970 be reported once when performed for the upper extremities and once for the lower extremities with modifier 59 appended?
Answer: It is appropriate to report CPT code 93970, Duplex scan of extremity veins including responses to compression and other maneuvers; complete bilateral study, once for the upper extremity veins and once for the lower extremity veins when bilateral study of both upper and lower extremities are performed. This code is intended to identify either the upper or the lower extremities, and modifier 59...
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