In order to ensure that your office is correctly billing modifiers, we encourage you to review the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Corporate Medical Policy addressing Modifier Guidelines, which was last revised in December 2013 and available online at: http://www.bcbsnc.com/assets/services/public/pdfs/medicalpolicy/modifier_ ...
Faden quartz is a descriptive term for a usually tabular group of quartz crystals with a white thread-like or string-like zone running through the interior. The term faden is a German word for thread. They are found in the Alpine region of Europe, Pakistan, Russia and Arkansas.
What is microcrystalline quartz? âQuartzâ is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen (SiO 2) and the word microcrystalline means that the quartz is in the form of crystals that are smaller than 30 microns in size (a micron is a unit of measure that is 1/1000th of a millimeter).