tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2017 Issue 8

Global Update: 99024 Leads Charge to Capture Postoperative Visits

Reporting is mandatory for few, voluntary for most. When your surgeon sees a traditional Medicare patient for a surgical post-op visit, you have a new way to report the service. Do this: Report 99024 (Postoperative follow-up visit, normally included in the surgical package, to indicate that an evaluation and management service was performed during a post-operative period for a reason[s] related to the original procedure) for each routine postoperative visit within that surgery’s global period, says Melanie Witt, RN, CPC, MA, an independent coding expert based in Guadalupita, New Mexico. Notice: “Code 99024 is not new,&rdquo...

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