assistant surgeon, reimbursed at 15-30%, payers identify procedures for which they would reimburse assistant at surgery -81 minimum assistant surgery, svcs at level less than that described in -80, reimbursed at 10% if svcs reported with the modifier are recognized by payer -82 assistant surgeon...
Modifier 51 is used By the primary surgeon, assistant surgeon and ambulatory surgical facility to indicate that more than one surgery was performed by the same physician on the same patient on the same date of service Billing • If the procedure includes multiple eyelids, each eyelid must be ...
Modifiers -25 and -57 are used to ensure appropriate reimbursement for the evaluation and management (E&M) service as well as a procedure in the office, or seeing a patient and determining to perform surgery within the next 24 hours. These modifiers should be reported with E&M services only. ...
A patient who is being followed by her Ophthalmologist during the post-op of cataract surgery comes in for an additional visit because she has developed conjunctivitis. The conjunctivitis is unrelated to the cataract surgery and necessitated an additional visit over and above her regular post-op che...