News You Can Use:
2017 Could Bring a Major Global Period Change
Published on Wed Sep 10, 2014
If you like codes with 0 day globals, you’ll cheer for this news. CMS has proposed changing all 10 and 90 day global codes to be 0 day global codes starting in 2017. Why? “The OIG has identified a number of surgical procedures that include more visits in the global period than are being furnished.” Because CMS seems to believe [...]