tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2003 Issue 8

Get the Pay You Deserve in Group Practice Coding

How can you code if a physician in your group practice treats a patient during the global period of a procedure performed by another surgeon in the practice? If you think that payer guidelines dictate that you must write off such visits, youre missing out on deserved reimbursement, particularly if a physician of another specialty within your practice sees the patient for a separate procedure. Use Modifiers to Separate Surgeries Because surgeons in a group practice typically share the same tax identification number, Medicare considers them the same physician for billing purposes. This can mean that you may be...

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