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Global Periods:

Know When You Can -- and Can't -- Report an E/M Service During a Procedure's Global Period

Published on Wed May 15, 2013

Learn the 7 global period designations to make your job easier. Before you even start looking at which evaluation and management (E/M) code you should report, there is one other critical point to consider. Determining whether you can report an E/M service on the same day or within the days before or after another procedure or service is essential to [...]
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