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Global Periods:

'XXX'? 'YYY'? Make Sense of the Global Alphabet Soup

Published on Sun Aug 12, 2012

Hint: Major and minor procedures differ in days of postop care. Ignoring global periods can wreak havoc on your bottom line, leading to denied claims, resubmissions, and appeals. But if you get to know the seven types of global periods Medicare assigns to procedure codes, you can look forward to smoother sailing when billing these claims. Count Your Days for Major Or Minor Of the seven different types of global periods Medicare has established, three represent the number of days of postoperative care included in the fee for the initial procedure, as follows: 000: This period indicates that related preoperative and postoperative care on the day of the procedure are included in the fee for the procedure itself. Any related evaluation and management work done on the same day as a procedure with this global indicator is generally included, says Maggie M. Mac, CPC, CEMC, CHC, CMM, ICCE, president of Maggie [...]
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