Understanding Assistant-At-Surgery and Co-surgeon Claims
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently completed an audit on their workplan of co-surgeon claim payments to determine if the payments complied with federal requirements. Per the OIG, their findings were as follows: “From our 100 statistically sampled services, we found that 69 did not comply with Federal requirements. Specifically, these statistically sampled services included 49 that were incorrectly billed without the co-surgery modifier, 14 that were incorrectly billed without an assistant-at-surgery modifier, and…
