Wiki Knee arthroscopy

[KarinQuiterio2023]

Our doctors are going to be perfoming diagnostic knee arthroscopies in the office and then IF NEEDED they will be performing arthroscopic knee surgery in an outpatient setting at a hospital/ambulatory surgery center. What is the best way to bill for the second procedure as the first will have a 90-day global? Would it be considered a second-phase arthroscopy or should I append a modifier or what?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Orthocoderpgu]

Modifier -58 to the rescue

For the second procedure you would add modifier -58 since it will be a planned procedure during the global period.