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Bilateral S&I

Date: Dec 1, 2014

Question:

When using bilateral procedure codes and separate S&I codes, ie. 50394/74425, 50398/75984 or 50390/74470 etc, how would you report the S&I? Would it be: 1)50394-50 and 74425 and 74425-59 2)50394-50 and 74425 x2 3)50394-50 and 74425 x1 ??? I seem to remember reading somewhere that you would code the 2nd one with a 59 but I can’t find it now...

Question ID : 6193
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