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Published on Mon May 13, 2024

Question: The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Policy Manual, Chapter XIII, Category III Codes makes the following reference to the global period XXX: “Procedures with a global surgery indicator of ‘XXX’ are not covered by these rules. Many of these ‘XXX’ procedures are performed by physicians and have inherent pre-procedure, intra-procedure, and post-procedure work usually performed each time the procedure [...]
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