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Codes 37238 and 37239, NCCI Edit

Date: Feb 19, 2014

Question:

This is probably a silly question, but I am billing my first venous stent codes for the year, and I am getting an NCCI edit when I am billing out codes 37238 and 37239. The edit is telling me that I need a -59 modifier on code 37238. Why is that, when code 37238 is my primary stent code?

Question ID : 5431
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