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Global Reporting Tips:

Strengthen Your Global Fee Claims With These Tips

Published on Fri May 27, 2011

Your surgeon may end up offering free care in the global period if you miss reporting a serviceNot capturing services that follow an initial surgical procedure such as return to the OR for an unanticipated bleed after evacuation of a hematoma could be costing you. Heed the advice below on identifying all services rendered by your surgeon and for the reporting of any post-surgical complications or investigations performed.Know the Global Period ParametersYou affirm the 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 a day before the surgery and also the preoperative visits a patient makes to the surgeon after a decision was made by the surgeon 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 [...]
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