tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2011 Issue 13

Part B Coding Coach: Avoid Giving Care Away for Free During Global With These Quick Tips

Keep modifiers, separate services in mind when offering postoperative care. If you aren't capturing services that your surgeon performs during the global such as return to the OR for an unanticipated bleed after evacuation of a hematoma, you could be flushing money away. Follow these simple steps to identify all post-surgical complications or unrelated procedures that your physician performs. Know the Global Period Parameters You can check a procedure's global period by identifying the day of the surgery, but you don't want to omit any preliminary services provided beforehand. Make sure to include within the global package all care...

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