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General Surgery Coding Alert

Subsequent-Care E/M:

Avoid Surgical Conflicts with 99231-99233

Published on Tue Aug 21, 2018

Pay attention to global period. If your surgeon performs an inpatient procedure that has a global period other than “0,” you need to limit your use of the subsequent hospital care codes 99231- 99233 (Subsequent hospital care, per day…). Restriction: “You should not use the subsequent hospital care codes for inpatient E/M services related to the surgery on days within [...]
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