I have a client who operates a sleep lab and he is having problems with some patients being non compliant during the services. As and example: Patient reported for over night sleep lab at 8pm. Patient was set up for the overnight sleep lab however at 1:30am patient got up and decided he was not going to finish the test and walked out.
I have not been able to find a modifier that is specific to this. I was thinking that I would need to use a modifier 53 however it specifically states that the test was stopped by the provider and that was not the case in this instance. Has anyone else had this problem? Would I bill using a modifier 53?