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Refine Your Post-Op Infection Coding With These 3 Examples

Published on Wed Mar 20, 2013

Hint: Global period and modifiers help you avoid the guesswork. You could be sabotaging your claims for post-op infections if you aren’t well versed on individual payers’ global policies and unsure of what modifiers to append. Here are three common scenarios to facilitate better reporting of postsurgical infection billing: Coding example 1: Several days following an open repair of distal [...]
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