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Modifier for Same Day Stent and Cardioversion

Date: Mar 23, 2015

Question:

My cardiologist did a cardioversion and a stent on the same day. Do I use modifier -59 on both the stent and cardioversion since they are in the same CPT code set?

Question ID : 6513
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