Nuclear Medicine Code Crosswalk: Bone Scans
Posted on 18. Mar, 2009 by Editor in Toolkit
If your practice has trouble following which bone scan codes you can report concurrently, our chart will help you determine when you should — and shouldn’t — report more than one bone scan on the same date.
These services represent the most common code pairings. Remember that anytime you append modifier 59 (Distinct procedural service) to a code pairing, your documentation must show that you performed the services during separate sessions and why both services were medically necessary.
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