Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Keep modifiers, separate services in mind when offering postoperative care. If you aren't capturing services that your surgeon performs during the global such as return to the OR for an unanticipated bleed after evacuation of a hematoma, you could be flushing money away. Follow these simple steps to identify all post-surgical complications or unrelated procedures that your physician performs. Know the Global Period Parameters You can check a procedure's global period by identifying the day of the surgery, but you don't want to omit any preliminary services provided beforehand. Make sure to include within the global package all care performed the day before the surgery as well as the pre-op visits that the patient made after the surgeon decided to operate. On the day of the surgery, any intraoperative services that are a part of the surgical procedure are included in the global period. Following the day of the surgery, [...]