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It mentions that if physicians are seeing a patient in the office following a procedure that has a global period and the patient has a new diagnosis that is unrelated to the procedure, the modifier will protect the service from being bundled into the global surgical package and reimbursement ...
The E/M service is included in the major and minor surgeries and is usually not covered separately. When a visit occurs on the same day as a surgery with ‘0’ global days and within the global period of another surgery and the visit is unrelated to both surgeries, CPT modifiers 24 and...
This modifier may only be submitted with surgery codes. For E/M services performed in the global period of a surgery, refer to CPT® modifiers 24, 25 and 57. An operating room for this purpose is defined as a place of service specifically equipped and staffed for the sole purpose of pe...