Modifier KX - documentation on file. Can someone please explain this modifier to me? Our Medicare carrier is telling us to put it on all of our DME's, but I don't completely understand the definition documentation on file or how it pertains the therapy caps, etc.
The Great Basin itself is a vast area of the western United States located primarily between the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges, including areas of Utah, Nevada, California, Idaho, and Oregon.
They are all located in the western portion of the country and are defined to be areas that receive less than ten inches of precipitation (rain, snow, etc.) a year. Great Basin Desert. The Great Basin Desert is generally considered the largest of the four US deserts. Although we usually think of deserts as being hot, the Great Basin Desert is often very cold and most of the precipitation that falls in the desert is snow. Much of the desert is at high altitudes of 3,000 to 6,000 feet or more.