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Moderate Sedation and Modifier GC
Date: Jan 28, 2020
Question:
A resident is involved with an IR procedure that involves moderate sedation, and the physician states the following: "I was personally responsible for the administration of moderate sedation during the procedure performed." Would modifier -GC be appended to 99152 and 99153 since it doesn't state the resident was involved in that part of the procedure?
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