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Outpatient Surgical Encounters – Multiple Procedures
Billing and Reimbursement
Policy Number: RP-I-010
Last Updated: Sept. 22, 2022
When one or more separately codable surgical procedures are performed in one outpatient surgical encounter please be advised:
- All applicable surgical CPT procedure codes should be shown on the claim (unless coding rules indicate one or more of the procedures are content of a code that better describes that procedure)
- When a surgical procedure is performed bilaterally, the CPT surgical procedure code should be shown once on the claim with the appropriate modifier