PQRI — Are You Cashing In?
This article appeared previously in The LINK.
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) is an incentive offered by Medicare to Medicare providers. PQRI will focus attention on quality of care. This program is paving the way for Pay for Performance.
Providers will use Category II codes, modifiers and temporary G-codes to report 74 unique [...]
-59 Modifier
This article appeared previously in The LINK.
CPT has some very specific rules for the use of modifier -59. This modifier is considered the modifier of last resort. You will typically use this modifier when no other modifier seems to fit.
Medicare and CPT have the same definition for this modifier. It is used [...]