Modifiers
Significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service by the same physician or other qualified health care professional on the same day of the procedure or other service.
What is modifier 25?
This sometimes acute, sometimes chronic symptom is a natural reflex for your body to clear out your airways
What is a cough?
An alphabetical list of terms and their corresponding codes
What is the Alphabetic Index?
The number of characters that compose an ICD-10-PCS code
What is 7?
This pain can be life-threatening or just a classic symptom of heartburn
What is chest pain?
The character used as a placeholder for future expansion of certain codes
What is an "X" or the letter "X"?
All of the letters in the alphabet can be used to construct a PCS code except these two
What is "I" & "O"?
You'll quickly recover from this symptom that may happen when there is a sudden, temporary drop in the amount of blood to your brain
What is fainting or syncope?
This abbreviation is the equivalent of unspecified
What is NOS?
The 3rd character of a PCS code that describes the intent or the objective of the procedure
What is the root operation?
This pain is sometimes described by where it is located, such as the right upper quadrant
What is abdominal pain?
This punctuation is used to enclose synonyms, alternative worrding or explanatory phrases
What are brackets?
Unrelated procedure or service by the same physician or other qualified health professional during the postoperative period.
What is modifier 79?
Fever develops when this brain structure responds to infection or inflammation
What is the hypothalamus?
This type of note means "not coded here". It is used when two conditions cannot occur together
What is Excludes1?