LU Modifier
Fractionated payment
HCPCS modifierLU
- Description
- Fractionated payment
- Short description
- Fractionated payment
- Added
- January 1, 2022
- Last change
- April 1, 2023
What does the LU modifier mean?
The HCPCS Level II modifier LU means: “Fractionated payment”. Append it to a HCPCS or CPT code on the claim line when the payer’s policy calls for it; placement and payment effects are defined by each payer.
Other L modifiers
- LC – Left circumflex coronary artery
- LD – Left anterior descending coronary artery
- LL – Lease/rental (use the 'll' modifier when dme equipment rental is to be applied against the purchase price)
- LM – Left main coronary artery
- LR – Laboratory round trip
- LS – Fda-monitored intraocular lens implant
- LT – Left side (used to identify procedures performed on the left side of the body)