Compliance:
Payer Preference Drives Coding for Services Within Global Period
Published on Tue Mar 20, 2018
Remember, not all payers will follow Medicare. If you're coding for a Medicare patient, the rules are clear when it comes to complications following a surgical procedure. After confirming that the evaluation and management (E/M) visit and/or return to operating room (OR) occurred within a procedure's given global period, you can make a determination as to whether you can justifiably [...]
