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Jan 10th, 2013 - csampson7
Global period
If a patient has a return to surgery within the global period and it has a 90 day global. Would you go by the original global period or the return to surgery global
Jan 10th, 2013 - nmaguire 2,606
re: Global period
If a complication of initial surgery (-78) the same global continues. If an unrelated procedure (-79) in a global, a new global starts and runs concurrently.
Jan 10th, 2013 -
re: Global period
Mod. 58...A new Global period begins
Mod. 78...No new global period