Wiki Multiple post op visits

[celam]

Patient was taken to OR for breast/chest wall abscess and billed with 19020. She has had 15 office visits during her 90 day global period for continuing evaluation and management. Are all of these considered post operative care?

 

[OCD_coder]

Global care is all routine care by CPT and for Medicare/MCD patients it's all routine and complications unless the patient goes to the OR.

So if all 15 visits were related to postop care, then they are not billable separately with a modifier 24.

 

[mitchellde]

Given the type of surgery and the reason this is just over 1 visit per week so I see nothing unusual about the amount of visits.

 

[Lyta2000]

Absolutely.