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X-ray of skull and X-ray of orbit in the same day

Date: Jan 20, 2015

Question:

We had a patient come for X-rays. The patient had an X-ray of the skull 70250 and an X-ray of the orbit. Per coding guidelines it states to use cot code 70250 when less than four views are taken of the orbit. This patient's orbit X-ray was less than four views. Please advise me of how to code this since both an X-ray of skull and orbit were done on the same day. Please advise me of the appropriate CPT code usage along with the correct modifier. If a modifier is necessary please provide me to which procedure code the modifier should be attached to.

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