Problem: The six-year-old patient is treated in the physician office with cautery to a bleed of the anterior right nostril. Code 30901 is assigned. Later that same day, the patient returns with bleeding from the same location, requiring the procedure to be performed again by the same physician. What action should the coding professional take to correctly report this procedure? Need Assignment Help?
Group of answer choices
- Assign the code once with a modifier -22
- Assign the code once with a modifier -51
- Assign the code twice with modifier -XE on the second procedure
- Assign the code twice with modifier -76 on the second code