tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 12

Global Surgical Package: See What All '0s' Might Mean for Your Surgery Practice

Don’t increase your follow-up care. You’ve seen CMS’s proposal to eliminate 10- and 90-day surgical packages, but have you thought through what it could mean for your bottom line? True, the global surgical package re-vamp that you read about in General Surgery Coding Alert Vol. 16, No. 9 is still a proposal with a distant implementation date. But you should study your current practice standards now, because Medicare will be watching for a change in your behavior if and when all surgeries convert to 0-day. Look for Re-Valuation The proposal to make all surgeries 0-day affairs...

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