Orthopedic Coding Alert

3 ways your physician claim better look different than a center claim. Think the same post-op and incomplete procedure modifiers apply regardless of whether youre coding for an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) or a physician? Save your claim from disaster by focusing on these variations. Change Postoperative Surgery Coding After Day 1 Every procedure billed by the ASC has a same-day global period, which makes sense because the ASC is not reporting physician work services -- only facility fees. This applies to the coder working for the ASC, but not the physician who performed the service, says Catherine Bowie, CPC, surgical and ASC coder for Central Maine Orthopaedics, PA in Auburn. Example: A patient experiences postoperative bleeding and the physician must return the patient to the ASC for control of bleeding on the same day. Both the physicians coder and the ASCs coder should report the appropriate control-of-bleeding code appended with [...]