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59 Modifier

Date: Jun 10, 2009

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Hello Dr. Z,
We are getting a denial for 77002 when added to 27093 for a Pre-MRI injection hip. According to encoder these are bundled. A modifier is allowed but 59 is not one of the choices.

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