A patient returns to the physician's office with flulike symptoms during the postoperative period for an appendectomy performed 1 month ago. Which modifier would need to be appended to today's office visit?

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Modifier -24 is used to indicate that a service was performed during the postoperative period of a surgery, but that it was unrelated to the original procedure.

A Patient Returns to the Physician's Office with Flulike Symptoms