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Enhancing Access and Payment Through Proper Use of Modifiers

CHRISTIAN HERMANSEN, MD, MBA
DORETTA HESS, BSHA, CCS-P

FPM. 2026;33(2):11-16.

Author disclosures: no relevant financial relationships.

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Primary care physicians can get the revenue they deserve by properly using codes that indicate they provided multiple services in a single patient encounter.

Dr. Hermansen is faculty at the Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Family Medicine Residency Program and managing physician of Family Medicine Downtown in Lancaster, Pa.

Doretta Hess is the coding director for Axia Women's Health and former coding director at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians.

The opinions and views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not represent or reflect the views of Axia Women's Health. Axia Women's Health has not reviewed or approved this content and accepts no responsibility or liability for any statements, errors, or omissions herein.

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