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New Modifier Usage, XU Modifier

Date: Jan 22, 2015

Question:

With the implementation of the new modifiers -XE, -XS, -XP, and -XU, which would be used to report when no previous diagnostic imaging was recently performed? Would modifier -59 still be used in this instance?

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