Modifiers Make the Difference When Reporting Distinct Services During the Global Period  

Category: Coding

If you're providing evaluation and management (E/M) services during the global period of another procedure or service, you may think that all such work is included in reimbursement for the initial procedure. But that's not always the case, and there are specific methods for reporting separate services during the global period.

Specifically, CPT® provides a series of modifiers that you should append to codes for E/M services that are subject to separate payment even during the global period of another procedure.

Primarily, these modifiers are as follows:

• 24 - Unrelated evaluation and management service by the same physician during a postoperative period
• 25 - Significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service by the same physician on the same day of the procedure or other service
• 57 - Decision for surge...
  
  

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