If a patient is in a 90 day global period from surgery that was done by a different provider/office, but wants to see our provider for post operative care, is there a specific CPT Code or Modifier that can be used?
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1) Digital Amputations do carry a "0" day global for Medicare and Insurance that follows Medicare, some insurances do not follow Medicare and still classify this as a 90 day global surgery. When not true Medicare it should be asked of the insurance carrier.
2) When the doctor has nothing to do with the surgery and gets handed the post-op care afterwards, if they document an evaluation and management service, then bill E&M no modifiers.
3) Never bill CPT 99024 unless you are the surgeon of record or the doctors in the same group and same specialty-podiatry, then one would bill the post op CPT 99024 for post-op visits in the global period.
4) If the 2 doctors agree to share services, then the doctor performing the surgery appends Modifier 54 and the physician who performs the postoperative management would bill the same surgical CPT code but append Modifier 55.