DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 1 (January)

Ask a Part B News Expert: Billing for suture removal as part of lesion removal

We have a physician doing lesion removals and having the patient come back two weeks later to bill for the service. Minor lesion removals have a 10-day global. The patient is coming back after the end of the global window, but it is still suture removal and seems like it should be part of the global. The provider insists on billing, because it is outside of the global time window as it is outside the global. What can I show the provider to prove is not a billable service?

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to the DecisionHealth Newsletters.

Official DecisionHealth® Newsletter Archives includes:

  • Includes over 25,000 articles from:
    • Coder Pink Sheets
    • Part B News
    • Answer Books newsletters
  • Current newsletters added each quarter
  • Timely news and guidance vital for your practice
  • Fully searchable through Find-A-Code's Comprehensive Search
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to the Find-A-Code Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
  • Save yourself tons of research time, find everything in one place!
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • DecisionHealth Coding, Billing and Compliance Library

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.