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Global Days for Simple Laceration Repair

Published on Wed Apr 16, 2014

Question: I had a patient come in with a laceration that was repaired using a simple single layer technique, but two days later that same patient presents with an infection. Am I correct, that this still falls under the global period and is not separately billable?  Georgia Subscriber Answer: The global period for simple laceration repair codes is zero “0” global days [...]
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